# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/21 "2010-01-25T16:59:41Z")
In reply to the thread title: You mean Barack Obama is a successful general who feels he isn’t getting the attention he craves? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/22 "2010-01-25T17:01:56Z")
Is the entire rant here really “LOL”? If so, LOL. Edit: This line, even though not written by the OP, is actually pretty funny: “What has Obama - this Conan O’Brien of presidents - done wrong in order to produce this devastating outcome?” Conan O’Brien of presidents, haha. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/23 "2010-01-25T18:23:46Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Boring. Yet another inane OP by a yet another simpleton. Every time I see a post like this from you, I picture Statler and/or Waldorf. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/24 "2010-01-25T18:33:40Z")
> [@](#): > > the single most inept president perhaps in all of American history, and certainly in my lifetime That’s just straight-up untrue. He’s got a long way to go to even be cometing for that title. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/25 "2010-01-25T18:53:33Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > That’s just straight-up untrue. He’s got a long way to go to even be cometing for that title. Hell, he wasn’t even the most inept President of the past decade. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/26 "2010-01-25T18:57:55Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Fuck that shit, you know? And fuck Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin, together. Ah a threesome. I can see that as stimulating your personal economy. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/27 "2010-01-25T19:02:04Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Every time I see a post like this from you, I picture Statler and/or Waldorf. I envision [Dylan from “Mr. Show”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCumH8LRo1A) (who makes his appearance at 1:10). ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/28 "2010-01-25T19:19:11Z")
I cant believe that someone has written something inflammatory on the internet. After all these years of pristine use, now it’s been soiled. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/29 "2010-01-25T20:00:46Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > He’s got a long way to go to even be cometing for that title. com **p** eting. Speaking of inept. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/30 "2010-01-25T20:38:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Those two are modern-day Pandoras, D [Avatar fan]Hey, don’t you DARE insult Pandora like that! They’d want to convert the natives to Christianity, and cut down the trees to build shopping malls and hotels.[/Avatar fan] I haven’t read the silliness in the OP, but may I just say, as a die-hard liberal, that Liberals and Progressives who are screaming and whining loudly now, are not going to know what hit them when the right-wingers get back in power. They’ll get exactly what they deserve. The rest of us don’t deserve it, but they do. Assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/31 "2010-01-25T21:15:20Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I haven’t read the silliness in the OP, but may I just say, as a die-hard liberal, that Liberals and Progressives who are screaming and whining loudly now, are not going to know what hit them when the right-wingers get back in power. They’ll get exactly what they deserve. The rest of us don’t deserve it, but they do. Assholes. So they should just roll over? Suck up to people whose only real selling point is that they are somewhat less crazy? Pretend to enjoy being stabbed in the back by the people they voted for? ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/32 "2010-01-25T21:36:39Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Every time I see a post like this from you, I picture Statler and/or Waldorf. Heh. I’ve said this a time or two before, but read **Ivn the terrible’s** posts in Stewie Griffin’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/33 "2010-01-25T21:52:23Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > Heh. I’ve said this a time or two before, but read **Ivn the terrible’s** posts in Stewie Griffin’s voice. Now _that_ is funny! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/34 "2010-01-25T22:14:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Am I supposed to know who David Michael Green is? Am I supposed to care what he has to say? If Green was an SDMB member and had posted that as an OP, I’d like to think he’d be ridiculed for his effort. Since he’s not here, I’m not sure what value there is in writing up criticism he’ll never see. I’d rather post comments on his blog, if I was so inclined. In other words, rowrbazzle found something stupid on the internet. At most, slow sarcastic applause is in order. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/35 "2010-01-25T22:24:44Z")
Is Eggs Barack going to involve a Bearnaise sauce? I can’t get behind that. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/36 "2010-01-25T22:58:52Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Edit: This line, even though not written by the OP, is actually pretty funny: “What has Obama - this Conan O’Brien of presidents - done wrong in order to produce this devastating outcome?” Conan O’Brien of presidents, haha. I now think of Jay Leno as the Grover Cleveland of talk show hosts. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/37 "2010-01-25T23:38:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I now think of Jay Leno as the Grover Cleveland of talk show hosts. I guess that would make Conan the modern Benjamin Harrison. Or by Canadian standards, Joe Clark. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/38 "2010-01-25T23:52:42Z")
I particularly like this quote: > [@](#): > > It’s almost as if he were a Republican sleeper politician in some party politics version of the Manchurian Candidate, planted to arise on cue and destroy the Democratic Party from within. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/39 "2010-01-26T00:03:39Z")
It is true you will never go broke underestimating the Democratic party. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/40 "2010-01-26T00:06:46Z")
Yeah, the Democratic Party is nothing but a bunch of asses… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304.md?page=3)