obama was the worst and most incompetent president of at least our lifetime...a great divider who had absolutely no idea as to what he was doing...

Quote:Former President Barack Obama will accept an award for ethics in government, the University of Illinois announced Thursday. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government is given out every year to honor “public officials who have made significant contributions to the understanding and practice of ethical behavior in public service.”

At first glance, this announcement by the University of Illinois would strike most people as falling somewhere between eccentric and insane.

But first impressions can be deceiving. The statement, like so many from the academic world, must first be interpreted from Newspeak into English in order to understand it. In this instance, “ethical behavior in public service” means “expanding and weaponizing the government bureaucracy to (a.) benefit progressives and other groups we like, and (b.) damage/harm conservatives and other groups we don’t like.”

Once the translation has been made, the announcement from Illinois makes perfect sense.

Quote:Katie Hill, the communications director for the former president

Honest question: who was the first “former president” to have a “communications director”? Hard to imagine Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower having need for that sort of thing. Much less all the presidents who came before them.

Well everyone has missed an important nuance. He is in Illinois. There are no ethics in government at all in Illinois. So....

Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

(08-31-2018 11:56 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

Yep they all make Al Capone look downright honest!

(09-01-2018 12:33 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 11:56 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

Yep they all make Al Capone look downright honest!

I'm still waiting to see what's in his vault. Where's Geraldo when you need him?

Oh, yeah. Nevermind.

(08-31-2018 11:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Well everyone has missed an important nuance. He is in Illinois. There are no ethics in government at all in Illinois. So....

Nicest guy in hell award.

Lol

(09-01-2018 12:49 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 12:33 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 11:56 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

Yep they all make Al Capone look downright honest!

I'm still waiting to see what's in his vault. Where's Geraldo when you need him?

Oh, yeah. Nevermind.

Don’t forget the Rob Blagovich, integrity in governing award.


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(09-01-2018 03:22 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 12:49 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 12:33 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 11:56 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

Yep they all make Al Capone look downright honest!

I'm still waiting to see what's in his vault. Where's Geraldo when you need him?

Oh, yeah. Nevermind.

Don’t forget the Rob Blagovich, integrity in governing award.


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Yeah, but Louisiana could easily compete for that award.

Only the Windy city can boast and make successful people like Wright, Ayers, and Dohrn. (and I forgot Jesse Jackson....)

(08-31-2018 11:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Well everyone has missed an important nuance. He is in Illinois. There are no ethics in government at all in Illinois. So....

Good point!

(09-01-2018 04:54 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 03:22 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 12:49 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(09-01-2018 12:33 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 11:56 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Too bad its not the Richard Daley Award for Ethics in Government. That would be fun.

Kind of the like having the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Award for Non-Violent Protest.

Or the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Patriotism Award.

All wondrously awesome citizens of the Windy City.

Yep they all make Al Capone look downright honest!

I'm still waiting to see what's in his vault. Where's Geraldo when you need him?

Oh, yeah. Nevermind.

Don’t forget the Rob Blagovich, integrity in governing award.


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Yeah, but Louisiana could easily compete for that award.

Only the Windy city can boast and make successful people like Wright, Ayers, and Dohrn. (and I forgot Jesse Jackson....)

New York and Georgia are in the same league.

(08-31-2018 09:46 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 05:36 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  He could be sainted now that we’ve witnessed 2 years of dysfunction and amorality in contrast to his no drama/ squeaky clean White House.

Most transparent post ever.

No more than any other post in this thread

(08-31-2018 09:53 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 07:10 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 06:56 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  There’s not one scintilla of evidence he deserves that....

Nor a smidgeon.

I don't know. The gross abuses of power by the Obama administration have definitely opened the eyes of Republicans and Independents to the need for ethics in government more than any other administration previously did.

Excellent take.

Cringe worthy in it's legitimacy, but perfect "frame-ation".

(08-31-2018 11:04 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  In related news I'm being named the Temperence Society Man of the Year

the irony of course in being carrie nation woulda just burned it down and spit as she walked over its charred carcass defiantly showing her justification by sharpshooting a runaway keg. just give me a reason dammit!



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Who would want to?