Fw: The Olympics According to Obama!


"How about that Michael Phelps? But let's remember he didn't win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in public pools, built by state employees using tax dollars. He got training from the USOC, and ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture. He should play fair and share his medals with people like me, who can barely keep my head above water, let alone swim."
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal




8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of absolute horseshit. For the thousandth time, Obama didn't say that people don't earn their success, he stated the very normal and logical conclusion that success is the result of individual effort + societal factors.

Which is 100% correct. Michael Phelps is a great athlete, but had he been born in a nation without swimming pools or organized athletics there's no way he would have accomplished all that he has. Our society has allowed him to flourish.

Maybe wingnuts ought to check out all the billions of dollars in commercials from big corporations that surrounded the olympics. The main thesis of most of those ads is "success is a team effort" (eg P & G's ads praising all the moms of the Olympians for their support over the years.) Are those companies also saying that the Olympians didn't earn their medals.

ferschitz said...

So lemme see: this is coming from the same lying rightwing think tanks that ginned up the rightwingtarded authoritarians to whine endlessly about how Obama should not be given one iota of credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. Nay, rather, it was solely and only the Navy SEALS who should get 110% of the credit. Obama did "nothing."

But of course, Obama is black and Rush tells us to HATE on him, so...

Typcial lying screed ginning up rightwingers to feel insanely victimized over... ???? nothing. Except didja OhNoes that Obama's an "N" word living in the white house??

Anonymous said...

Is this comic supposed to be an insult to Michael Phelps? He looks like some sort of hobbit or troll.

gruaud said...

Michael Phelps?

Jesus, I thought that was John Kerry.


Thx 4 Fish said...

My Congrats to Michael Phelps for his well-earned medals! He swam those races all by himself-except the relays.

He didn't build the swimming pool he was swimming in, but that's not part of the sport anyway. Shame on the righties for once again misunderstanding the English language and creating a shiny straw man to dangle in front of the clueless.

blaney said...

Lady Mucky-Muck Nooningtonhampshire awakens from her delicate slumber (aka passed out from a combo of neat scotch 'n valiums), arises from her couch (aka staggers up from the floor where she passed out and attempts not to bounce off the wall as she scrurries to the toilet to derp), brushes trendrils of her luxurious tresses from her eyes (aka glimpses at her hag-ridden sourpuss by accident after her derp mostly made it into the sink), and notices, why for sooth, is that yon some chiseled champions exerting their muscled frames in manly pursuits of the Empire (aka her tv & computer have been running for days as Peg passes in and out of her pill 'n hooch daze)??

Why! - Lady Muck declaims - this be just the veriest thing for my blessed self to pontificate upon for benefit of the lower orders. And whilst I am upon my vaunted scribblings, let me also find some way to put down that uppity darky who pretends to the throne (aka her editor called, texted, yammered, sent emails, left voice mails, gave up, and then sent the bicycle messenger to bang insistently on her door with a letter telling that alcoholic old nag to get up off her lazy ass and write about Obama's alleged latest "slur.") The perfidy! The horror! How darest such a one say suchest a thingest about these youthful hard bodies and why I am outraged, verily I am, and... hic ! ... clunk! (aka the old rhymes-with-rich passes out in a stupor once again, thank the lowered!!!).

Anoner said...

"...ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture..."

WTF? I know Noonan considers herself way above the hoi-poloi, but does she really think that the Dept of Ag does actual farming??

With brainiacs like Noonan blathering out nonsense like this, it's no wonder rightwingers are so ill-informed. Also shows the "quality" of the WSJ since Rupert Murdoch bought it. Down the toilet, just like all his other acquisitions. Murdoch does like aiming for the lowest common denominator.

Agree that the cartoon of Phelps seems insulting to Phelps. Good going, conservatives. Let's see who else you can insult today.

Marc with a C said...

"But let's remember he didn't win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in public pools, built by state employees using tax dollars. He got training from the USOC, and ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture. He should play fair and share his medals with people like me, who can barely keep my head above water, let alone swim."

No shit, Noonerz. That's why he earned the medals FOR AMERICA. Not for himself. FOR US.

Jesus, but she was better when she was telling us how God sent dolphins to keep Elian afloat on his way to America.

 
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