So the left has decided the word for Obama’s is “gutsy.” That’s kind of weird since he made a call that most Americans would have made, so what’s gutsy about it? If you told a regular American, “So, do you want to get Osama or not get Osama?” they would think that’s a trick question. But for Obama, going with the obvious answer was gutsy.
I guess it’s like how we have a really big dog, but she’s very friendly. The normal response when she comes up to you is to pet her. But if someone were really afraid of dogs, it would be gutsy for that person to pet my dog while it’s a non-issue for most. So maybe that’s how getting Osama is gutsy for Obama; Obama is so used to doing insubstantial things, so that was personally very gutsy for him.
And now the press is starting to think, “Now that Obama has made this ‘gutsy’ call, who knows what he can do next!” It’s like they’re back into their mindset from the 2008 campaign having all these wild-eyed fantasies about Obama being marginally competent, when really if Obama doesn’t self-implode on domestic issues, that will be very impressive for him. Of course, getting expectation too high could really hurt Obama’s chances in 2012; what the press needs to do for him is sell that 8% unemployment would be really impressive. And then Obama needs to achieve 8% unemployment.
So, anyway, Obama will get a little bit of a bounce and deservedly so for taking out Osama, but I wouldn’t expect too much of it. It’s like if that kid who is in outfield and can never catch the ball catches it one time — you can cheer him on but it’s not like his next stop is the pros.
So I guess me preaching about sin, backslidding and judgement was gutsy for an arminian. Anyone else do anything that gutsy reciently?
Historircal translation: “Doing what is obviously called for”
Obama-Era = Gutsy
Bush-Era = Cowboy (see also “criminal,” “war crime,” and “Hitler”)
Yes, but I have never known anyone who took sixteen hours to come to the conclusion that they needed to pet the dog. Waiting sixteen hours isn’t deciding to do the obvious choice. It’s stalling for time, while you try to come up with a really good reason not to do the obvious answer.
Yeah – 16 hours of trying to decide to be gutsy. That’s like sitting on the can for 16 hours waiting to pinch one off. Then he goes back to being constipated.
Obama is the Todd Marinovich of Presidents.
I woke up, brushed my teeth, and went to work. Very gutsy of me. Now I am eating lunch. Super gutsy.
Release the proof of death, then maybe I’ll think gutsy, not wimpy.
As I prepared to leave for work this morning, I carefully inserted the key in the ignition. At that point I was faced with the difficult option of starting the car or not. Even though the car could have potentially caught on fire or it could have blown up with me in it, I courageously made the gutsy call of turning the key in the ignition.
Married? Have Kids? Now that’s Gutsy!
now that you mention it, I always thought of Obama as that kid that stands, or sits, out in right field; glove on the ground, one hand down his pants, picking his nose with the other and watching butterflies.
I think Obama’s greatest problem in all this is the notoriously short attention span of the average American. At the end of the Gulf War Bush Sr. looked like a shoe-in for re-election but look what happened to him. By the time of the election our collective attention was on the economy…not victory in the gulf.
Dang, now that I think about it, it might have been wiser of me to sit there and think about it for 16 hours…
I consider myself a master of gutsy decisions. Some recent gutsy choices by me:
– Bravely chose to eat shrimp over chicken yesterday at my parent’s home during our Mother’s Day dinner.
– Bravely drove around Miami this morning. If you’ve even driven in So Fla, you’ll appreciate how gutsy that was.
– Asked my wife to get me an audio component for my birthday.
– I bravely wore my just arrived, brand spaniking new Nuke The Moon t-shirt on Saturday.
As you can see from those examples, ORambozo’s got nothing on me.
Wearing mom jeans is gutsy.
The other day I watched Key Largo. Very early in the movie, the cameras showed Edward G. Robinson’s bare chest as he sat in a tub. I made the gutsy call. Though I was at risk of seeing E.G. Robinson’s, well, everything else, I didn’t turn off the television. Wow!
I made the gutsy call to watch TV on Saturday night, instead of reading a magazine. How’s that for gutsy!!! I had less than a 50% chance of something I wanted to watch being on then, but I went ahead and turned on the TV. Now, I want Joe Biden to go make speeches about how gutsy I am.
I make the gutsy call to post here several times a day. While it’s true that I prolly won’t be hurt physically, it is possible that someone might make fun of me, and then my feelings would get hurt. I like to think of myself as Captain Danger. Sometimes I wait 16 hours before posting.
@Marko: I had forgotten the story of Marinovich. Absolute hype to abject failure. He may be the only professional QB who had to have his hand bandaged after cutting it on a crack pipe during half time. His Wikipedia entry is a hoot.
hmmm… if enough folks think cutting spending would be VERY gutsy…. perhaps our gutsy potus will take a hint?
I ordered a Quarter-Pounder … with Cheese! Yep, I made a gutsy call.
Oh, I didn’t order a Hot Apple Pie with. I’m thinking about it, though. I’ll give you my decision in 16 hours.
Well, keep in mind, these are the same idiots that think standing up in front of a room filled with liberals and saying something liberal is really gutsy.
I am going to the DMV. If that ain’t gutsy I don’t know what is.
Praising it as a gutsy move is like praising the kid for deciding to catch the ball. Its not like it was a heart wrenching decision. (Unless you are secretly a Muslim admirer of OBL and hate America).
A gutsy move would be one that you thought was right for America but that you might take a little heat for.
Gutsy would be telling the Klingon to lose the lard butt.
I’ve always thought of Obama as the bat boy sitting on the bench jerking off while everyone else is in the field! Then when one of the real players breaks his bat they have Obama (gutsy and all) run out a new one. When he arrives the kid who broke the bat takes the new one after smacking Obama in the nads and says thanks loser! Then Obama kind of does that duck walk thing with his knees together back to the dug-out!
ussjimmy, I think I actually saw that at the last White House softball tourny – now THAT’S entertainment
When the MSM is more committed to your fortunes than you yourself are, one “accomplishment” cribbed off your predecessor’s to-do list is all you need. This will get people like Lorne Michaels off The One’s delicately waxed back.
The proof is in their palms–their hairy, hairy palms.
On the face of it, this assessment is valid. But let’s drill down a little bit. You see, approving the operation is a little bit more than just deciding to take down UBL. And I’m not even talking about the diplomatic and political repercussions involved in going into Pakistan in order to do it.
A few short decades ago there was this thing called “Desert One.” Google it, if you don’t already know. The president is of an age, as I am myself, to remember Desert One from late-adolescence/early-adulthood. Desert One was where Operation Eagle Claw went wholly pear-shaped and the predecessors of what became “Delta Force” took a number of casualties. And that was before they’d even gotten to their objective in Tehran.
So there are consequences to be considered. Missions are not always assured of success, even if things don’t go disasterously wrong (as they did at Desert One); what if the intelligence is wrong? What if UBL picks that particular night to sleep over at a friend’s house? The list of what-ifs and what-could-go-wrongs is limited only by the imagination.
So I’m un-troubled, upon reflection, by those who give props to the commander-in-chief for making a “gutsy” call. The call was his to make, he made it, and it went well for the troops who executed it, went well for the president, and went quite badly for UBL.
I’ve quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms2.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-gutsy-post.html