Open Thread: Obama Inserts Himself Into History

By Matthew Sheffield | May 16, 2012 | 10:18

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It probably wasn't his decision (one hopes not) but the latest update to the White House website is really quite embarrassing: It appears that people have gone into the site's biographies of the past 9 presidents and inserted electioneering material touting President Obama into them. As chronicled by IBD's Andrew Malcom:

It was probably to be expected from a monstrous political ego that considers himself among the top two presidents of the 21st century.

But faced with the apparently frightening possibility of losing his reelection bid, Barack Obama has inserted himself into the online White House bios of almost every president in the last nine decades. To somehow share and compare their achievements. At one point Obama even draws his wife into the biographical additions.

It would be funny if it wasn't so hilarious. Remember the grandiose but short-lived little party hats that Richard Nixon designed for his special presidential guard unit?

Imagine the emotional insecurities of a grown man who would have henchman find and gratuitously insert even the faintest link between this 44th president and almost every president back to Calvin Coolidge --"On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people.....President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls."

Franklin D. Roosevelt -- "On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations."

Herbert Hoover -- "President Herbert Hoover signed the bill founding the Department of Veterans Affairs July 21, 1930. President Obama is committed to making sure that the VA, the second-largest cabinet department, serves the needs of all veterans and provides a seamless transition from active duty to civilian life,..."

The arrogance of whoever directed these insertions is incredible. Sadly we'll never likely know as the self-proclaimed mainstream media is unlikely to

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Let's not forget:

Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:28am.

Bubba Clinton was the first president to study "Erectile Function."

Obama was the first president to study "Erectile Dysfunction."

(Probably the first one who needed to study it.)

Comrade Bubba

I remember

Submitted by bobbys on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:30am.

I remember when Teddy was trying to inspire the troops to charge up San Juan Hill and all of a sudden Barack jumped up and yelled...

FORWARD!!!

Yes, Obama is a Rough Rider as has been recently confirmed.

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:33am.

Didn't that costar

Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:36am.

Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger?

The narcissism of the man is

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:34am.

The narcissism of the man is truly staggering.

wait.....

Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:43am.

What man? You shouldn't talk bad about her like that......

-Jon

Oh good. I have a couple of images on this very subject.

Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:37am.

Here's Obama at the meeting in Yalta. And here he is taking part in the celebration of V-J Day. (By the way, there is a Tumblr page by the RNC that has similar photoshopped images with Obama inserted. They take a different approach than I in their message, but someone had the same thought I did on the V-J Day photo. Though they used the Life version. After I had posted mine on Twitter yesterday.)

Thanks, BK

Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:44am.

This is a gaffe that is better in pictures. This one is going on my list. The hits just keep on coming, I've added almost ten gaffes in the span of as many days!!!

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)

He's a regular Forrest

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:06am.

He's a regular Forrest Gump!!

He was there at all the great moments in US history!!

I guess that's why he always voted "present."

Buh-rock Hussein Gump

Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:13am.

Has a bit of a ring to it.....

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)

This technique was developed on Saturday Night Live

Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:40am.

Remember Kevin Nealon's "subliminal advertising" routine? Obama's handlers have taken a lesson from Nealon.

"President Franklin Roosevelt ... blah blah blah yadda yadda [Obama] yadda blah blah..."

"President Calvin Coolidge ... blah blah blah yadda yadda [Obama] yadda blah blah..."

"Christopher Columbus ... yadda yadda blah blah [Obama] blah yadda yadda..."

delinquent children in the library with crayons

Submitted by CarlosS on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:47am.

scribbling and scrawling their names in the books. That's what this reminds me of.

Quick!!

Submitted by richflanj on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:00am.

Somebody go to the National Archives and check the Declaration of Independence for the crayon signature of Obama!!!!

Liberals are greedy. -- Me

Well, we know he won't get the date right

Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:10am.

He'll probably sign it with his inauguration date.

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)

This line caused me to

Submitted by HelenS on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:53am.

This line caused me to wonder: "It was probably to be expected from a monstrous political ego that considers himself among the top two presidents of the 21st century."

Who was the other one? Carter, I'm assuming.

Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."

He actually put himself in the top 4 of all time

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:02am.

He told Steve Kroft in an interview:

“I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history,”

I noticed he stopped short

Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:55am.

of Woodrow Wilson, who held the US Constitution in contempt, and who wanted a socialist/Progressive government in America, and who foisted the disastrous League Of Nations on the world, that would eventually morph into the Satanic United Nations.

If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.

He was a segregationist.

Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:43am.

Well, Woodrow Wilson was a segregationist, so I'm not surprised Obama doesn't want to be associated with him. They did miss a great opportunity though. They could have added: "Woodrow Wilson hosted KKK rallies on the White House lawn. Now, the First Black American President (is that trademarked yet?), Barrack, Obama makes daily strolls across the same lawn thus bridging the gap between the races."

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court

Or Anwar al-Awlaki.

Woodrow Wilson was also a horrible narcissist.

Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:43pm.

In medical school and in residency, two psychiatry faculty used Woodrow Wilson as an example of narcissism. It wasn't necessarily referred to as a "personality disorder" back then, but instead taught in the Freudian ego sense. There were many terms, but the one that comes to mind would be "Messiah complex". Woodie always fancied himself the Messiah riding out to save the masses from their own stupidity, and he was perpetually baffled because others saw right through him and refused to be enablers of the behavior. They also saw right through his inept handling of many domestic situations. Overall, he was only popular among Democrats, but only in the sense that they held the office and they thought he could not do too much damage. As it stands, the American electorate was more than ready to jettison him after the war ended.

Wilson

Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 7:08pm.

I know quite a few historians who would agree with you on Wilson having a "Messiah complex".

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Obama and best President

Submitted by NVRAT on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:55am.

Until he gets his bust on Mt. Rushmore he is a nothing. Guess I had better be quite that might be his next move.

NVRAT

Obama was the first to hold a Town Hall meeting?

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:01am.

Bullsh*t.

And bullsh*t.

The horning-in is bad enough, but they have to lie about it too?

To be fair, it does say the

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:12am.

To be fair, it does say the first "virtual" town hall meeting.

Yeah, but I hate fair.

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:54am.

I used to like it, but I've had it beaten out me ;)

I remember

Submitted by bobbys on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:11am.

JFKs inspiring speech...

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country..

Now...

As So my fellow Americans , I cannot fix what Bush did and what i inherited, Many of you that are Republicans cannot drive the car anymore, Do not ask for the keys, Ask not to cling to your Bibles and guns but instead ask what you can do for Julia and her birth control and get some of that Bama Money!

It begins....

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:18am.

Franciscan University drops its health insurance program in the face of the HHS mandate.

Cult of Personality

Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:39am.

He is every bit the Cult Of Personality that Liberals accused Reagan of being.

/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال

The Narcissist-in-Chief

Submitted by c5then on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:43am.

One wonders if there are minions even now making changes to documents in the National Archives...

Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!

I can see the future.

Submitted by cruiser on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:51am.

Just as the Romans had their generic "Caesars", in the future all Presidents of the United States will be called "Obamas", and the original Obama may even be declared a god.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
---- Groucho Marx

Hasnt he already been declared a God?

Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 2:52pm.

Why didnt they compare him to James Buchanan? Thats more his style! Wish he was more like Calvin Coolidge-Silent Cal, Blabber Oblammer!

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. BEN FRANKLIN

It's all about The One!

Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:55am.

The Obama legacy stretches back 90 years!

Can you imagine the liberal uproar that would have happened if any Republican had done this? I can already hear people like Mathews screaming about the Republican Ministry of Truth. But I can predicted that when these "biographies" are edited by the next Republican administration to remove the inappropriate references to Obama, the liberals will be screaming Racism at the top of their lungs.

Tho shall not undo the work of The One.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court

Or Anwar al-Awlaki.

Ears: an ego gone wild!

Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:22pm.

This latest and most pitiful attempt to hide Ears' enormous failures from view is just plain buffoonish. Ears, one of the worst narcissists in history, has turned us into an international laughing stock, for one thing. And then there's the spending - instead of putting the brakes on it, he and his fellow Spend-o-crats have "mashed the gas" and are taking us right off the cliff. Yet the make believe media toadies don't see anything wrong with any of this stuff!

Silky Pony will walk

Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:52pm.

The defense has rested in the case of the Breck Boy. They never called his daughter, his concubine nor him. They believe like I belive the government didn't make its case. It seems that the money from the donors was not for the campaign. If that is the case it seems like they would have a tx evasion case against him. I feel right now that he is going to walk. The jury has seem he is a worthless POS scumbag but there is no law against that or 2/3 of the Commiecrats and 1/3 of Republicans would be guilty.

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

War on woman

Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:58pm.

Deb Fisher won the primary to face off agaisnt Harry Reid's buddy Bob Kerrey. The Commiecrats are ready to drag her through the mud. Now who is waging war on woman? The Commiecrats have waged war on conservative women for years but nobody seems to want talk about that. Just ask Palin or Bachmann for instance

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.