No, this isn’t an Onion piece (but this one is):
A White House official says President Barack Obama will be skipping jury duty after being summoned in Illinois.
The administration official confirmed to The Associated Press on Sunday that the president alerted the court weeks ago that he won’t be able to make it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly.Obama was summoned for jury duty at the Bridgeview courthouse in suburban Chicago starting Monday. The summons had arrived at the Obama home on Chicago’s South Side.
With his first State of the Union speech set for Wednesday, Obama has a busy week ahead.
#8-Phydeau-blah, blah, blah
I guess you haven’t heard, but it’s now cool to mock Obama.
From the sheer comedy of having the great Socialist orator chained to a teleprompter to his slave-like groveling to foreign leaders, Obama has proven extremely mock-worthy.
So mock loud and mock often.
#21 LOL — socialist. What a clueless right-wing moron you are. Socialist. That’s a good one.
And I understand, having a president who doesn’t call random countries “evil” must seem like groveling to you in comparison.
I can see you mainline this sh*t directly from right-wing hate radio. Well, everyone’s gotta have a hobby, I guess.
My psychiatrist wrote a letter and they exempted me for life.
Usually you get out of jury duty if you are in the military. Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of all US armed forces. And he is a sitting President. I don’t really care for Obama, but he really should be excused from jury duty, as should any sitting President.
This is a non-story, unless he was called to serve on a jury in Kenya. Is that the case? No? Then it is a non-story.
I just left a jury selection an hour ago. No kidding. If the lawyers/prosecutors/judge/defendant/witnesses know any potential juror, that juror is excused.
Or, if the juror doesn’t live in the jurisdiction. But hey right-wingers, run with it and continue to look stupid.
#8 “They’ve somehow been programmed to believe that Democratic presidents are just not allowed.”
But surely that would be undemocratic, wouldn’t it?
#22-Phydeau-Socialist. That’s a good one.
I know you have trouble recognizing the obvious, but sometimes a spade is just a spade.
I hereby give you permission to remove your lips from Obama’s butt or whatever protruding part you are latched on to.
Is anyone, right or left, advocating having the President serve on a jury? I don’t think so. You look stupid saying that people on the right believe a sitting President should be on a jury. No one believes that.
# 25 Olo Baggins of Bywater said, on January 26th, 2010 at 7:31 am
“But hey right-wingers, run with it and continue to look stupid.”
Although I think him doing jury duty is of little critical concern, he should realize people already know the state of the union. Just look at the recent Massachusetts election. LOL.
22, Phydeau, Whenever someone pushes class warfare via redistribution of wealth, a universal health care plan, or simply bigger government, then that is essentially socialism or laying out the framework for it. It’s really not that hard to understand.
That being said, Obama recently mentioned he’d rather be a good one-term president instead of a mediocre two-term president. If what he says is true, then why is he moving to the center by putting a “freeze” on spending?
Answer: He’s trying to appease the independents in this country because he realizes most people most people already know what the state of the Union is and it’s not looking pretty.
What you can say is Obama declaring a spending freeze now is like someone winning a pie-eating contest and then saying they’re going on a diet right afterwards. It’s a pathetic attempt at symbolic restraint (when it really isn’t).
#27 Keep on keepin’ on there Dodd… the more wacky you wingnuts look, the less credibility you have. You’re doing a service to the nation. Thanks for your service.
#29 22, Phydeau, Whenever someone pushes class warfare via redistribution of wealth, a universal health care plan, or simply bigger government, then that is essentially socialism or laying out the framework for it. It’s really not that hard to understand.
You’re right, it isn’t, and yet you still fail. You might want to research your socialism there pal. Socialism is about redistribution of wealth away from the rich, to the poor. Obama’s sucking up to the big bankers, bailing them out, appeasing the big insurance companies. The current healthcare bill will take our tax dollars and put them in the pockets of the rich, not the poor. That’s not socialism, that’s the opposite of socialism.
I am not suprised, I just don’t get it! I have to report to jury duty or I’ll get fined eventually. He should of just showed up for media purposes.
Whoever sent the jury subpoena should be fired for being retarded.
31, Phydeau, Obama promised not to raise taxes on the poor and middle classes. So what? He’s got a ton of broken promises along with a desire for bigger government. Obama ran on a campaign of social reform towards socialism. And I’m sure you voted for that.
Solution? Stop making the federal government so damn big. Stop making everything an entitlement as though it should be provided to you by government. (That’s difficult for socialists to accept).
Capitalists / Conservatives / Libertarians believe in equal opportunity. Liberals do not. Liberals believe in equal outcome. Liberals argue that life isn’t fair and that the rich keep getting richer.
What do Liberals want? They want big government to assure equal outcome by taxing on people’s productivity unfairly. Problem is when you get bigger government, Special Interest Groups grow in lockstep.
How do you solve that? Keep government small to the point of “as required”. Start paying attention to the Federal Government’s enumerated powers. Whatever the case may be, government is almost always the problem. There’s no need to make it bigger. I can spend my own money vastly better than they can.
That bastard! Not Obama; Cherman.
#2 – I agree it is retarded. And just another pitiful mud slinging smear tactic. Judges and lawyers get out of being on juries, all the time. So you’d suspect that Mayors, Govenors, and Presidents would too. As well as Congressmen and Senators. And who ever heard of any of these being called for Jury duty before now? This is a set up, by some Illinois bureaucrat, who conveniently forgot to take Obama’s name off the list. I’ll bet he was never called before, now.