That's some hard hitting stuff. This is where the press brings out the big guns, just to prove these are no biased. Watch out BHO. This is just the tip of the iceberg...there's more of this hell in the years to come.

FTA: The Obama transition team would not comment on the president-elect's geek qualities.

Smart move.

A Press Release indicating whether Obama considers himself to technically be a full-on geek or merely "nerd adjacent" would be an uber-geek move.

He's too cool to be totally geeky and he's too geeky to be totally cool.

Sounds like a winner to Spud.

Btw, they don't like to be called "geeks" anymore.

They actually prefer to be called "techno savvy digi-lords".

Nobody's actually calling them that or anything Spud's just sayin' they'd like it if folks did.

The Nimoy LLAP Vulcan gang-sign thing was pretty cool by Spud's lights but then Spud's a bit of a geek himself.

Live Long and Prosper.

Peace and Long Life.

Be Well.

Fine. A president who is tech savvy is much more desirable than one who loses emails.

High school has a lot to answer for.

In other news: Darth Vader loses custody battle when his ties to William Ayers are brought to the Galactic Council's attention. Grand Moff Tarkin said to be despondent but still in charge of the Bush Administration's transition from power.

The "Obama" is everything to everyone parade continues.....

Sorry, no geek plays basketball, worksout, and prances around outside without a shirt on, sorry just doesn't happen.......

REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE SHOWS OBAMA WAS BORN IN CHINA BY A KONGFU PANDA...

I thought he was born in the Arcturus Cluster?
You know-his Mother was Human-His daddy was a Comet-a Mercury Comet.......

I don't care what he is as long as he helps our economy.

Live long and prosper!

"techno savvy digi-lords"

FF On that one Spud.

I am tempted to add that to my signature line for my office email.

Fine. A president who is tech savvy is much more desirable than one who loses emails.

Actually, it takes a great deal of technical skill to "lose" that many emails...

BOBSF

Geek or not, BHO is pussywhipped and totally manipulated by his Superbitch....and you thought Hillary was bad...stay tuned

Geek or not, BHO is pussywhipped and totally manipulated by his Superbitch....and you thought Hillary was bad...stay tuned

#13 | Posted by Greatamerican

Really?

Obama Is A Hawk
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reaches back into the history of the Democratic Party and describes the tradition of war-making and expansionism that Barack Obama has now left little doubt he will honour.

By John Pilger

14/06/08 "ICH" -- -In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to the rest of humanity will diminish.

The foregone nomination of Barack Obama, which, according to one breathless commentator, "marks a truly exciting and historic moment in US history", is a product of the new delusion. Actually, it just seems new. Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating what can only be described as bullshit on a grand scale. Race, gender, appearance, body language, rictal spouses and offspring, even bursts of tragic grandeur, are all subsumed by marketing and "image-making", now magnified by "virtual" technology. Thanks to an undemocratic electoral college system (or, in Bush's case, tampered voting machines) only those who both control and obey the system can win. This has been the case since the truly historic and exciting victory of Harry Truman, the liberal Democrat said to be a humble man of the people, who went on to show how tough he was by obliterating two cities with the atomic bomb.

Understanding Obama as a likely president of the United States is not possible without understanding the demands of an essentially unchanged system of power: in effect a great media game. For example, since I compared Obama with Robert Kennedy in these pages, he has made two important statements, the implications of which have not been allowed to intrude on the celebrations. The first was at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the Zionist lobby, which, as Ian Williams has pointed out, "will get you accused of anti-Semitism if you quote its own website about its power". Obama had already offered his genuflection, but on 4 June went further. He promised to support an "undivided Jerusalem" as Israel's capital. Not a single government on earth supports the Israeli annexation of all of Jerusalem, including the Bush regime, which recognises the UN resolution designating Jerusalem an international city.

His second statement, largely ignored, was made in Miami on 23 May. Speaking to the expatriate Cuban community which over the years has faithfully produced terrorists, assassins and drug runners for US administrations Obama promised to continue a 47-year crippling embargo on Cuba that has been declared illegal by the UN year after year.

but was he a Cheerleader?

Damn, that realy makes me feel good. WTF over?

Geeks are usually good people. Just not funny or entertaining to non-geeks. The major drawback to having a geek in a leadership role is that geeks are often naive. But since this geek is replacing neocons - who manage to be naive while also being corrupt and incredibly selfish - that is hardly an issue.

sul, he is out of the Chicago political machine. You know he isn't corrupt.

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!

HA HA HA Deal with it losers!!

Geek or not, BHO is pussywhipped and totally manipulated by his Superbitch....and you thought Hillary was bad...stay tuned

#13 | Posted by Greatamerican at 2008-12-26 03:04 AM | Reply | Flag:

WOW....She must be some 'superbitch' to be able to manipulate her husband into the White House!

C'mon...say it with me.

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!

BTW, what is your take on Sara and Turd Palin's relationship?

The major drawback to having a geek in a leadership role is that geeks are often naive.

Obama was so naive that he voted for war and didn't go down to the basement to read the top secret information about WMD in Iraq.

That's weird I always thought a true Geek worked at the Carnival/Circus. Obama doesn't seem the type to Me.

Larry

Obama was so naive that he voted for war and didn't go down to the basement to read the top secret information about WMD in Iraq.

Obama was not in the US Senate at the time of the Iraq vote and did not vote on the Iraq war resolution, so, no, he did not go down into the basement to read the top secret information about WMD in Iraq.

Gal,

Although you are correct, how did Obama vote in regards to the Iraq war?

Seems he wasn't so naive which was the logistics of my post.

Roman,

As far as I know, Obama didn't vote on the Iraq war. He gave a speech against it back in 2002, when he was an Illinois state senator:

Gal,

You are correct, obama voted against the funding bill and wanted more clear goals for the troops.

A far cry better than the majority of the naive democrats.

Obama isn't a geek, just a normal smart American who is trying not to change his information gathering on the average main street knowledge base.

Roman,

I always wondered why so many Dems voted for the Iraq war. Afterwards many of them claimed they never really thought Bush would actually act on the resolution. How naive was that? Add to that, the fact that, as you point out, many of them never took the time to look at the intel. They were mostly caught up in the post 9/11 mindset and wanted to be seen as tough on terror. I think Hillary fell into that trap, was already planning on running for president someday and wanted to beef up her foreign policy credentials.

I also agree that Obama isn't a geek. It's just that compared to someone like McCain, who had never used the internet (but who did invent the blackberry!), he was more in synch with the times we live in. I saw one focus group in which a number of the younger participants complained that McCain seemed too old and out of touch precisely because of his lack of any technical know-how.

I saw one focus group in which a number of the younger participants complained that McCain seemed too old and out of touch precisely because of his lack of any technical know-how.

~Gal Tuesday

Spud found the way the GOP ran with the "McCain = Technotard" story to be fascinating.

Originally, it started out with McCain self depreciatingly calling himself an "illiterate" when asked whether he was a PC or Mac User by Mike Allan of Politico on a Yahoo News Interview.

Spud,

Thanks for the recap. I had missed the Rove ad lib fib about McCain being unable to use the internets due to war injuries. McCain can't use the internet, and he has the scars to prove it? It's not good to mock his war injuries, but since Repbulicans used them as propaganda at every turn, I figure it's fair game.

Thanks for the recap.

~Gal Tuesday

Yer ever so welcome.

I had missed the Rove ad lib fib about McCain being unable to use the internets due to war injuries.

Reall,y, who has the time to keep track of ALL of Karl's lies.

McCain can't use the internet, and he has the scars to prove it? It's not good to mock his war injuries, but since Repbulicans used them as propaganda at every turn, I figure it's fair game.

Every time Spud's conscience balked at saying sommat about McLame's war injuries Spud just thought about wot they did to Max Cleland.

Then it became much, much easier.

Be Well.

Every time Spud's conscience balked at saying sommat about McLame's war injuries Spud just thought about wot they did to Max Cleland.

Then it became much, much easier.

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that.