A List Of Things President Obama Has Thrown “Under the Bus”
• Israel, according to Mitt Romney
• Palestine, according to Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest
• Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to Rev. Jeremiah Wright
• Christianity, according to Tara Wall, deputy editor at The Washington Times
• Hosni Mubarak, according to Foreign Policy's Shadow Blog, pretty much any FOX guest
• America, according to Michelle Malkin and Sophie B. Hawkins
• Chris Rock, according to Joshua Keating at Foreign Policy's Passport blog*
• Democrats, according to Chris Stirewalt at FOX News
• Tax evaders, according to Foreign Policy's Shadow Blog
• Fixed exchange rates, according to Daniel Drezner at Foreign Policy
• Contraception, according to Michelle Malkin
• Our allies in and around Eastern Europe, according to a writer at The American Thinker
• No one, according to at Samuel Charap at Foreign Policy
• His "fiscal commissioners," according to Stephen Stromberg at The Washington Post
• His grandmother, according to Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer and and others
• Arizona, according to Greg Gutfeld at FOX
• Joe Biden, according to an editor at The Daily Telegraph
• 2010 lame duck Congress, according to a cartoonist for The Akron Beacon-Journal
• Shirley Sherrod, according to a cartoonist for The State Journal-Register
• Gov. David Paterson, according to Dan Collins at The Huffington Post
• His entire church, according to Michelle Malkin
• Prof. Henry Louis Gates, according to Rush Limbaugh
• Rosa Parks, according to Pat Buchanan
• The financial sector, according to Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit, speaking on Charlie Rose
• The LGBT community, according to historian Timothy McCarthy in The New York Times
• His family, according to Politico's Roger Simon
* Edited to add: Actually, nope, not Chris Rock. Keating was only using that as a mock example in his argument.
Nate Hopper is a summer Awl reporter.
Photo by David Boyle.
Buses, according to the MTA.
@TableNine Throwing Things, according to MLB.
@TableNine Roads, according to the DOT.
@saythatscool DOT, according to Stripe.
@TableNine Stryper, according to Michael Sweet
@TableNine Matthew Sweet, according to his Girlfriend.
@TableNine Matthew Sweet, according to the pattern you started.
@saythatscool damnit you beat me to it, I'm leaving it up.
@saythatscool Matthew Perry, according to Richard Lawson
@TableNine Nigella Lawson according to Brian Moylan.
@saythatscool Richard Dawson, according to Ray Combs
@TableNine Rooster combs, according to Andrew Zimmern.
@saythatscool Eminem, according to Jay-Z
@riotnrrd Jay's Potato Chips, according to Funyuns.
@TableNine The Fugees, according to Seth Galifianakis.
What is this, commentary?
He's a get things done kind of guy.
HIMSELF.
@deepomega 2008 Obama!
I really hate this tired phrase, but the Buchanan "throw Rosa Parks under the bus" gaffe was pretty amazing inadvertent comedy.
@TroutSavant Another political phrase that we haven't heard in a while but might be come rather soon: in the tank. Oh, 2008…
@TroutSavant What is the sourcing for the graphic? I can't remember if I made that or just stole it so completely that I convinced myself I made it.
@Multiphasic Well, I didn't make it, so I might as well give you the credit. I looks to be taken from icanhascheezburger. I posted it to my Tumblr back in 2008 but without the source, sadly, and now I can't find it anywhere despite searching on TinEye, Google and icanhasetc.
Call him a fascist if you like, at least he made the trains run over Henry Louis Gates on time.
I don't really want someone to throw Malkin under a bus, but if she happened to, say, get run over by a runaway golf cart, and that video end up on youtube, that'd be okay.
@sorry your heinous I'd like to see bus thrown on top of her. Again and again and again and again.
@sorry your heinous That woman clearly needs a new metaphor. Stop being so obsessed with bus[s]es, Michelle Malkin!
Jerome Bettis, according to……..poof.
DC Women, according to CherriSpryte and also probably Eleanor Holmes Norton.
@cherrispryte To be fair, being flattened does often terminate a pregnancy.
As someone who works in the transportation industry, I can honestly say that Obama has definitely not thrown bus transit under the bus.
As long as nobody throws nothin' under the L train, I don't care! Missed my damn soccer game last Wednesday because the stupid L was out of service.
You forgot me. I'm a verifiable member of the Democratic base, and I hear he threw the base under the bus within his first week in office.
Someone needs to throw mixed metaphors under the bus.