On the second episode of the new season of "Saturday Night Live," Fred Armisen played President Obama giving a wry address about his inability to accomplish the key pillars of his agenda. In the blunt sketch, Armisen jokes about taking "four months to pick out a dog" and suggests his primary accomplishments have been to kill a fly on camera and bring a black professor and a white police officer together.
"When you look at my record, it's very clear what I've done so far, and that is . . . nothing. Nada. Almost one year and nothing to show for it." The fake Obama walks through a checklist of his campaign promises -- closing Guantanamo Bay, withdrawing from Iraq, passing health care reform -- and admits that he hasn't made progress on any of them. Video: "Saturday Night Live," Oct. 3, 2009
And this is news? Everyone but the sheepish left know Obama has done nothing. Is anyone surprised that no experience, votes present, done nothing notable in his life has accmplished nothing in a year? At this rate he will not only be know as the first black president but also the laziest and least effective. Good thing he has the race thing to fall back on.
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Stella
1:04PM Oct 5th 2009
I wouldn't say he is lazy. He is bouncing around from issue to issue like a rubber ball--and not hitting one target. I understand why he is trying to work as quickly as he can to push his agenda now. The more time that goes on, the more he reveals himself, and thereby loses support. By 2010, he won't have the votes to push any of his harmful projects. The curtain has been pulled up, and the American people see this man for who he is--a failure.
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rthompson1329
2:02PM Oct 5th 2009
I think he just has a bad case of ADHD
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park457799
3:26PM Oct 5th 2009
You forgot to mention that Obama spends money like he had a wealthy relative pass away and he hit the jackpot. The only problem is that it is our money!
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Truth
3:50PM Oct 5th 2009
That's just not fair! Obama has done a lot of things, such as:
go on a lot of expensive vacations
he's done irreparable harm to race relations
he's had more press conferences than anyone
he has two teleprompters
Obama has thoroughly torn down our nation in front of international audiences
He's used personal pronouns more often than anyone since Hitler. The blizzard of "I's", "Me's", "my's", and "mines's" has been incredible.
Obama has put into power the most most deranged, radical, insane bunch of Czars in history. No other president is even close.
Obama has cozied up to every Marxist dictator in the western hemisphere, and is trying to help create another one in Honduras.
He has routinely failed to show even a passing interest in championing democracy
He's violated the constitution with great regularity, and has employed blatantly Fascist tactics with his bank takeover, and of course, his take over of GM.
Speaking of GM, Obama has another great achievement: he gave GM to the corrupt, leftist unions.
No one can criticize him for not spending enough money. He has the all-time record for spending money we don't have. He's the King of em all, y'all.
He's been on Letterman, doesn't that count?
He threw out a pitch at the All Star Game, and made girls everywhere feel better about there pitching potential.
And finally, he's managed to continue to fool nearly half of America as to what his true agenda is, and they still babble and froth in defense of his "achievements". I think I hear some now, running to defend him by blaming, you guessed it, George Bush, and attacking common sense wherever they find it.
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bob
10:07PM Oct 5th 2009
Making fun of Republicans - HAHAHAHAH HOHOHOHOH HEEE HEEE HEEE!!!! Fantastic!!!!! SNL IS BACK, BIATCH!!!
Making fun of Obama - :::sound of a pin dropping:::
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R. C. Jackman
6:35AM Oct 7th 2009
Allow both public and private to operate across state lines.
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greatqb44
11:11AM Oct 5th 2009
RACISTS!!!!
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sunchildsv
12:41PM Oct 5th 2009
No they are not a racist just because they recognize Obama for what he is. A racist is one of those who voted for Obama because he is black ( which is only half true) so we all get half an effort to restore our county by someone who was not raised here and has as many ties outside the US as in. The scariest part he is a politician from Chicago and the majority of the people voted for him. WE CAN ALL HOPE THAT THE LAST MINUTE REGISTRATIONS PULLED IN BY acorn WERE OF LIVE VOTERS.
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garry402
11:12AM Oct 5th 2009
Sarah Palin made Tina Faye's carrier. Now the Big O has made a carrier for Fred Armisen.
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bonbon
11:30AM Oct 5th 2009
you mean career.
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gnmk09
8:26PM Oct 5th 2009
garry402,
I suppose we can say he actually accomplished something of value.....
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Denny
11:24AM Oct 5th 2009
Hooray for SNL, they can tell it like it really is. I'm sure the president will want to stop all sorts of things with his control over ALL MEDIA. He doesn't want the people to REALIZE that he has done nothing but TALK! His followers will not admit to that, but it is all out in the open and how can they not admit it now?
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bonbon
12:10PM Oct 5th 2009
Denny, his o-bots will admit nothing.
they see him as they want him to be. not as he really is.
denial is a very powerful thing.
and a skit on SNL is not going to change anything, even though it was right on.
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bonbon
12:17PM Oct 5th 2009
for proof just see what greatqb44, above your post, wrote, one word says it all
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lrm
11:30AM Oct 5th 2009
we(the silent majority) had said it BEFORE he was elected...EMPTY SUIT! NO EXPERIENCE! LACK OF FOREIGN POLICY! NO SUBSTANCE! when SNL says it it becomes official! it would be a great joke if the consequences were not so SERIOUS! the media will turn on him even more as we speak!showboating and grandstanding will only go so far!
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nextyear44
11:44AM Oct 5th 2009
How serious can the consequences be? We've just gotten through 8 years of an empty suit and front man for Haliburton and Bechtel. At least we know he won't bring us into a war to pad his pockets. Eight months into Bush and we had the worst foreign attack in the history of the United States.
And if you really were the SILENT majority, you'd shut up and recognize that when SNL did Sarah Palin, they were joking - it was a parody of some of the worst things people were saying. So was this skit.
Unfortunately, it wasn't a very good impression of the President and frankly not that funny.
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Leslie
11:53AM Oct 5th 2009
nextyear44
Just get over it already!!!.........now you're whining and crying again. I'll bet you think Bush found and hired this guy to play Obama :) :) :)
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lrm
11:54AM Oct 5th 2009
nextr year whatever: oh yeah! let's back to the tired old tactic of criticizing the past admin. why don't you defend the ACTUAL LACK of accomplishment and commitment of obama?! why don't you defend all his missteps? hey palin was NOTHING! obama is the PRESIDENT! palin had NO RESPONSIBILITY to us obama DOES! when SNL get a hold of you you are DOOMED!
I guess you have NO ONE that you know on the ground in Afghanistan? it must be just a symbolic situation to you? the fact that people are REALLY dying with NO objectives spelled out and NO idea of what constitutes victory! at least Iraq had measurable objectives and battles were fought with these in mind! the "awakening" movement was conceived by the Bush admin and was wildly succesful! obama does not know the enemy he faces as well as he know not his owm abilities! he will face peril for this as he is ignorant as to the rules of war and histories lessons!
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lrm
12:03PM Oct 5th 2009
nextyearwhatever: "how serious can the consequences be?" how do I begin? this shows your total lack of insight! how about iranian sourced tactical nuclear weapons detonated in NYC? its that serious enough for you? how about an monthly afghan GI death toll which has SURPASSED the iraq conflicts in its rate of occurence? how about that DEFICIT? i guess not much is serious to you! I suppose the trivial loss of the 2016 olympics is much more relevant to you?