by Mark Silva
In the final moment of the president's campaigning, er appearance, in Ohio today -- a day on which the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. was supposed to be closed, but isn't -- the president helmeted up at Ridell's sporting goods factory.
The company's state-of-the art football helmets should be perfect for a president confronting all the promises made in the past year -- from the closing of Guantanamo to the passage of health care -- that have run into a political "buzz saw'' along the way, as he suggested in Elyria today.
The helmet presented to the president today bears the presidential seal on the side with "44" printed on the back. It could come in handy for next week's State of the Union address, the president gleefully agreed.
"That is a serious looking helmet. I can knock some heads with this," said Obama. "When I watch the games on Sunday I might have to wear it.
"You have to drink beer through a straw," he noted.





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Countdown to the knee jerk anti Obama comments from the right wing mouth-breathers in...
5...4...3..2..1 Ding Ding Ding!!!
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Posted by: I wanna be a Republican idiot | January 22, 2010 5:48 PM
PERHAPS KOOL-AID THROUGH A STRAW WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE . . .
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | January 22, 2010 5:54 PM
The populist make over:
Football helmet and beer - just one of the guys.
Someone better show him how to put the helmet on.
Loons - another broken promise - Gitmo is still open.
Posted by: Terry | January 22, 2010 5:56 PM
MORE GOOD NEWS FOR REPUBLICANS!....oh...wait a minute....nevermind.
Fox News poll: Obama smashes GOP in Presidential match up poll.
If the Wingnutters still think that nude model Scott Brown means their on ther way back to being accepted by the American people, they're wrong. Just ask Fox.
Obama - Romney 47-35.
Obama - Palin 55-31.
Obama - Gingrich 53-29.
Each margin includes a healthy lead among independent voters.
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http://www.alan.com/2010/01/21/fox-news-poll-obama-would-beat-gop-tea-party-rivals-by-landslide-in-2012/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+liberaland+%28Alan+Colmes+Liberaland%29
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Hey Wingnuts, when Fox can't even spin a poll for you, you know you're screwed!
Posted by: Hahaha!!! | January 22, 2010 8:23 PM
What exactly was Obama doing in Ohio today? This is one reason he is losing popularity. People are tired of all the unnecessary travel. It may only come to a million bucks or so, but it's money that didn't and doesn't have to get spent. Stop flying all over the place on the taxpayer dime. Stop wasting our money. Stop being the world's greatest tourist because you can and because you can do it all with no cost to you!
Posted by: John D | January 22, 2010 9:05 PM
Go, President Obama and Vice-President Biden. It's good to see that he isn't impressed with this aberrational victory in Massachusetts of the double-talking model, that is impersonating Ronnie Raygun, the Great Appeaser. As for the Republican-Libertarians, get used to it, President Obama will have his Healthcare Reform and America will be forever thankful. Maybe by then, you can find a stable of models to run, because your incumbents will be has-beens !! When are these Republican-Libertarian blahheads going to accept the fact that Ronnie Raygun was a joke as an actor, and as a President. We won't even get into his appeasement of the Iranians, during the Iranian-Contra affair. You know all about it, I'm sure !! No !!? Just google it and you'll learn a little history.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 22, 2010 9:43 PM
Ronnie Raygun was a joke as an actor, and as a President.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 22, 2010 9:43 PM
Oh the Democratic hack Fitzgerald is woefully inept in his post once again. It appears your the one who needs the history lesson hack job.. "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall"...ring a bell at all hack job Don ? Millions of Eastern Europeans are now free to live where they want , travel where they want, and say what they want, liberties and freedoms we've enjoyed for over 200 years. Leave it to a partisan hack such as yourself to deny others what you and i have. It's people like you that are fracturing the fine Democratic party , that once stood for those ideals. Keep up the good work of disinformation, it may even be taken as true by one or two people someday.
Posted by: Don B. | January 22, 2010 11:38 PM
Just google Iran/Contra affair and you'll learn a little history.
posted by;Don Fitzgerald,Il.
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Donny F....google The Soviet Union's down-fall and it'll tell you all about the "Appeaser?"...Ronald Reagan and why it's just called, Russia now.
Iran/Contra affair vs. the Soviet Union and thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S.
Falsifying the history of a great President is shameless. Did John E. sneak a computer into the neurological rehab unit for you?
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | January 23, 2010 2:05 AM
That was the worst script he had ever read, in all of his acting gigs, the silly one he spouted at the Berlin Wall !! Gimme a break !! Like he and not all of the fine American's in uniform, in our Diplomatic Corp, in our Intelligence community, didn't have any thing to do with the defeat of " communism ". What a joke !! He reads a few poorly written, outlandish phrases and the Republican-Libertarians want us to think, he destroyed " communism, with a single blow. As the great American actress, Helen Hayes said: We never thought Ronnie would go so far !! Nobody did, until he started spouting McCarthy-like venom, and clubbing kids heads in Haight-Ashberry !! Get back to those remedial classes in history, that you blew-off. You may find out things about your tarnished leaders that you may not like. I'm sure it doesn't matter to you, Republican-Libertarians, you'll take whomever you can get !! That's obvious.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 23, 2010 9:09 AM
I wanna be a Republican idiot
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More like...
I wanna be a Democratic sheeple!
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John Edwards is a Democrat, what does that make him?
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Why is everyone that does not like Obama's polcies categorized as "Right Wing". Looks like there were plenty of independant voters in Mass. that do not like them.
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Plus if all Republicans are idiots you would fit right in, so welcome to the group. You can start out as a "Junior Moron", but after the first 90 days you can move up to "Brianless douchebag".
If you work really hard you can move up to the status of Don Fitz, that is "Clueless Ingrate".
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Boy this name calling stuff is fun, I see the appeal it must have to you "Left Wingers".
Oh boy, now I just made myself sound like a hypocrite. That means I can now run for a political office.
Posted by: wingnut master | January 23, 2010 9:26 AM
HEY HAHAHAHA IS THERE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR OR . . . . YOU DUMMYCRATS HAVE PLLLEEENTY MORE TIME TO DRIVE THIS THING FURTHER IN THE DITCH!!!!
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | January 23, 2010 9:30 AM
Heck, if I had voted for the idiot, Bush&Cheney, I sure wouldn't own up to being a Republican-Libertarian either. I'd call myself an independent, too. Come on, that's the best you, Republican-Libertarians, can do, models or actors. In either case, they are as woefully inept and as incompetent as Ronnie Raygun, the Great Appeaser, was !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 23, 2010 10:23 AM
FITZ,
Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber - you produce the rant that Reagan had nothing to do with communism falling in eastern Europe.
Do you think if we had four more years of Carter and then followed by a Mondale presidency, that the Soviets would have caved? If those two dimwits held the oval office, we probably would have had the Nigaraugan army at the Texas border.
Reagan smacked you head in San Francisco - that explains a lot now.
Posted by: Terry | January 23, 2010 11:42 AM
" Ha-ha-ha-ha " Thanks, " Terry ", I needed that !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 23, 2010 12:10 PM
As a supporter of Obama last year, I must admit that I was rather non-plussed by his Ohio speech when he strangely kept referring to himself in the third person, kind of like Bob Dole. That and his repeated degradation of Scott Brown's truck. We don't need a meltdown at the top. Obama's appeal was that he was dignified. There is no dignity in third person references or lame put-downs.
Posted by: Woodrow | January 23, 2010 12:53 PM
a helmet, the perfect gift for the socialist progressive that keeps running head on into failure. he's going to need that helmet to protect more of those bad ideas in his head.
Posted by: lunaticcringeradio | January 24, 2010 10:35 AM
he'll be needing it
Posted by: lunaticcringeradio | January 24, 2010 10:48 AM
why didn't they include the url ???
http://www.sondrak.com/archive/skpics2/phillip.gif
too inflammatory?
Posted by: lunaticcringeradio | January 24, 2010 11:19 AM
Now just wrap that baby in tinfoil and BO will be all set.
Posted by: Libtard | January 25, 2010 10:57 AM
I see the silly boys and girls of the Republican-Libertarians are out playing again. Can't they get some adults to post, then maybe we will have that national discussion on the health of our nation, politically, economically, healthcare reform and Corporate Greed. That would be a discussion worth having with adults, but certainly, incapable by these posters, who are supposedly representing the Republican-Libertarian fringe. Okay, kids, recess is over. Get back to school and develop some reasoning and communicating skills !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | January 26, 2010 11:08 AM