Happy Cuatro de Cinco! Though I guess that was yesterday.

54 recordings of 14 types.

Instapundit:

I GUESS OBAMA KNOWS ABOUT THE TEA PARTIES NOW: "He�s not really all that gracious when it comes to dealing with people that don�t already love him, is he? Kind of smirky, with a faint flavor of exasperation." Say what you will about George W. Bush, he had a skin whose thickness wasn�t measured in Planck lengths.

100 Days of the Poser Presidency.

The superficiality, the unseriousness, the hubris, the obliviousness to post-9/11 realities: They were trademarks of the Obama campaign and they are the tattoos on his governance.
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Remember: Barack Obama is the frivolous man who concocted his own presidential-looking Great Seal before he was elected. An ego big enough to publicly display a ridiculous �Vero Possumus� (�Yes, we can� in Latin) motto and a regal eagle with the Obama campaign logo emblazoned on its chest is an ego capable of far more reckless things. Obama orchestrated a grand photo-op in Berlin, Germany, to declare his world citizenship at the Siegess�ule Victory Column � a soaring monument of arrogance championed by Adolph Hitler and Third Reich architect Albert Speer. He manufactured his own Open Temple of The One in Denver for the Democratic National Convention last summer, replete with fake Greek columns.

Since taking office, President Obama has remained in perpetual campaign mode, idling in 9/10 gear. The photo album has filled up quickly with megalomaniacal moments.
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These are the defining images of a stunt(ed) presidency blind to our enemies and in a perpetual state of (re)pose we can�t afford.

100 Days, 100 Mistakes.

Surber: "Hope. Change. Hope the change don�t kill the economy."

MediaLizzy:

Lesson number one for every American president is this: It ain�t about YOU, your family, your ancestors. It�s about selfless service to the American people at large. IF you don�t understand that� then Americans have a responsibility to hold not only the President and his Administration accountable -- but also the US Congress.

RWSparkle
Obama "can see the light on the horizon." All I see is rising unemployment & swine flu. I guess lightworkers see these things before we do.

Jules Crittenden: "Sounds like six in 10 Americans have been living in a different America than I have for the last 100 days and were raised differently if they like that for personality, demeanor and leadership."

Reason.com: "After 100 days, the new president has revealed himself as an effective salesman of exhausted ideas."

Surber: " He is trying to apply Ronnie Reagan�s words to his Rod Blagojevich policies. The huddled masses yearning to be free were not escaping penalties for early withdrawals, by pogroms and serfdom. Their descendants do not wish to go back there."

0bama's Prime Time Audience Drops by 29 Percent.>

Is he a tish narcissistic?

JTlol
@allahpundit How is it we're talking about the limits of narcissism when we're less than 24 hours from Obama's latest Lookit Me Show?

Bush had better numbers but:
Much of America is still willing to give Obama time to prove himself even if 80% admit that his economic policies will harm their children and grand children and the rest are concerned about his reckless spending.

Jammie Wearing Fool: "Smart move by Fox ignoring Obama's self-congratulatory, albeit inept, presser."

He doesn't know his Churchill. That's because he reads Andrew Sullivan.

Instapundit:

MICKEY KAUS: Scariest Thing I�ve Heard About Obama. "He reads Andrew Sullivan's blog. � The Churchill/torture anecdote Obama told last night (from 'an article I was reading') apparently came from Sullivan. Not surprisingly, the 'facts had altered slightly' by the time they'd made their way through Andrew to Obama." I can see why Obama prefers Sullivan. But he'd help himself more by reading InstaPundit. No "bubble" here.

Come on, Mr. President, actually do have this conversation.

Jules Crittenden quotes Goldfarb:

Readers of the New York Times may wonder why the Obama administration approved a dramatic reenactment of the 9/11 attacks using real fighter planes and a lifesize 747.
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In other words, Obama wants credit for closing Gitmo even though there�s only one less prisoner there than when he was inaugurated and his administration has no good answer for what to do with the rest. Obama wants credit for his handling of the economy even though the economy contracted at a worse than expected 6.1% in the first quarter of this year. Obama wants credit for rejecting the false choice between our security and our ideals even though you only get credit for that if your policies keep the American people safe.

HeyTammyBruce
B. "Shaft" Obama messed with IRS tax withholding tables, secretly raising almost everyone's taxes.

Heh.100 days of Barack 0bama's Facebook News feed.

Moe Lane.

0bama Tells Cardinal he's not pro-Abortion. Must be newspeak.

JTlol
BREAKING: Pres. Obama Taking Over 3-Hour Block of Primetime Tonight to Announce New Hand-Washing Czar, TV's Howie Mandel

A serious leadership problem.

$540???! What an idiot.

The 0bama Disaster by the Numbers.

Gitmo Looking Better All the Time.

Jules Crittenden again: "What are we on, Day 103? I think that Change shark just officially got jumped".

Mark Steyn, It's yesterday once more.

Argh.

Hot Air:

This is the thing that makes me crazy with Obama: he just can�t seem to overplay his hand. It wouldn�t surprise me to see him nominate somebody just freakin� insane left-wing � Bill Ayers-style insane left-wing � and turn on the news to see that 70% of the country thinks it�s the most brilliant choice in history, and 25% think his tush looks good in the pants he�s wearing. I think sometimes he just gets off on making America eat a bug, just because he can.

RegularJoe on May 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Extortion!

More on the banana republic. "Once again, the Obama administration has steered us into uncharted waters: we have no experience with this lack of respect for the rule of law."

0bama's Pay-to-Play Scheme.

Steyn says 0bama looks moderate, but acts radical.

0bama's Approval Index Going Down.

Instapundit says, "For a figure of hope and change, he�s sure big on demonization. I hope that changes. . . ."

Democrats didn't fund 0bama's plan to close Gitmo..

comment:

Next up for The Zero:

A Prime Timer presser during the NBA final game 7 where he announces how conservatives lost their soul and how they can get it back!

JTlol
These folks think Obama has new ideas because they're new TO AMERICA. Hey, just 'cause they've failed everywhere else they've been tried...

Air Farce Pictures won't be released. It's OK, though, to release the Abu Ghraib pictures. Priscilla-Prissy Williams Wooten at 8:01am May 5: "And here he is meeting with the dems right now on energy and global warming. Can we say Hypocrite?????"

Moe Lane:
"For my part, I�m actually a little surprised. I knew that the current President is woefully inexperienced - and not a little petulant - when it comes to dealing with people who don�t already love him, but surely he must have realized that things like this always come out in the end, yes?"

0bama Halting Drone Attacks?

Corroboration of threats. "the White House tried threatening senior creditors instead of doing their job in enforcing the law. Not only do they not realize that their responsibilities do not include building business plans for private enterprises, but also don�t include assuming the role of Michael Corleone and acting like organized-crime thugs. Actually, the way the White House made Obama sound, maybe Sonny Corleone is a better analogy... or perhaps Fredo.

Okay, I�m taking bets on what �emergency� will drive this story off the very few places it appears.

Outbreak of the plague?

Bombing of an Ibuprofen factory?

[your entry here]

Daggett on May 5, 2009

TheAnchoress
@EdMorrissey AF-1 pics will be classified because they show Obama wing-riding and shouting yee-ha!

@IMAO_:
@EdMorrissey Those picture could give the enemy information of just how stupid this administration is. We can't take that risk.

Don Surber "National security does not bother him. Criticism of The Won? that just is not going to happen."

Video: Reid sets a low bar:

Harry Reid appeared on the Today show to reassure Americans that Barack Obama can pick a Supreme Court justice, but we can be forgiven for not feeling terribly sanguine after Reid�s endorsement. Reid says we can expect the same competence and research that have gone into Barack Obama�s Cabinet appointments.

Yikes!

JTlol
When that burger joint told Obama they were out of the spicy mustard, he vowed to bring the full force of the WH press corps down on them.

Moe Lane: "A brave man, to cross the WH under his own name -- also a foolhardy one. Does that bug you? Good: it should." Comment: "I am indeed fearful writing this... It�s really a bad idea to speak out. Angering the President is a mistake and, my views will annoy half my clients."

Emperor's New Clubs.

Reading: Rousseau and Revolution, What If? edited by Robert Cowley, the Bible (Micheah), Beyond the Biography of Jesus: The Journey of Quadratos by Alexander J. Shaia, Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith, Don Quixote, Low-Carb Dieting for Dummies, Katherine B. Chauncey.