Gosh, who knew?
Borenstein writes:
In September, campaigning in Colorado, Obama was talking to a potential voter who mentioned he had been one of the hundreds of thousands of people outdoors at Obama’s bone-chilling first inaugural when the noontime temperature was an unseasonable chilly 28 degrees. Obama promised: “This one is going to be warmer.”
Scientifically, the president doesn’t have control of day-to-day weather. While his policies can lessen or worsen future projected global warming on a large scale, they cannot do anything about Washington’s daily temperature on Jan. 21.
Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ap-obama-doesnt-have-control-day-day-weather
Words just completely fail me here. All I can do is laugh, and wonder if new newspaper gig is in Seth’s future, I hear there’s an opening.
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Not sinful, just a useless endeavour.
Others have some ridiculous title: http://cliffmass.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-inevitability-of-global-warming-and.html
It shows us how styles have changed… George Washington is referred to as ‘The Father of our great Country’… Nowadays Obama is referenced as some kind of a son 😉
What HAVE they done to that poor Tuatara
Steve Thatcher says:
January 18, 2013 at 3:17 pm
Used to be called King Canute, in the days when historians were well aware of what schoolboys’ minds were like.
Historical inauguration day temperatures are at this link:
http://www.wtop.com/41/3197004/Weather-doesnt-always-cooperate-on-Inauguration-Day-
Nothing even remotely unusual about zero’s first inauguration.
Radical Rodent says:January 19, 2013 at 1:14 am
“Used to be called King Canute, in the days when historians were well aware of what schoolboys’ minds were like.”
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I missed a day of school when they started teaching about Canute. In our history books it was spelled Knut. The next day I was asked to read from the book, and (naturally!) pronounced it as Nut, much to the amusement of the class. Maybe I wasn’t so wrong………..
Sorry, I know Canute (Cnut, Knut) was demonstrating he couldn’t control the seas. I meant to add, ‘where Obama is concerned’.
I sincerely hope Al Gore will attend his inauguration…
Rumour has it that Al Gore has been asked to stay the heck away on the 21st.
I’m confused- I thought he was trying to make it cooler!
Obama promises someone this year’s inauguration will be warmer than the last – his narcissism knows no bounds. Here are various Obama statements:
Tweets about “his” middle-class tax cut that is really Bush’s from 2003 – after demonizing the Bush tax cuts for several years http://tinyurl.com/8tr9goo
President Obama, who was a constitutional law lecturer, in 2012 dismissed the U.S. Supreme Court as “an unelected group of people [who] would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.”
Obama takes an oath before God to uphold the Constitution, and yet he decides it’s not politically expedient for him to deal with due process or spying on citizens and has his Attorney General justify murdering US citizens — and then adds a signing statement saying, “Well, I’m not going to do anything with this stuff because I’m a good guy.”
Obama = God, magical powers, or alien technology? “…I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…. ” (Obama’s Nomination Victory Speech in St. Paul June 3, 2008)
“I am going to try to be so persuasive, so that those of you who are still wavering…will suddenly come to the conclusion — a light beam will shine through — will light you up — and you will experience an epiphany — I have to vote for Barack!” (Barack Obama, Lebanon, New Hampshire Jan. 7,2008)
Obama: The Day I’m Inaugurated Muslim Hostility Will Ease…because he’d lived in a Muslim country – until he was 10 years old. Latest polls, he’s reviled in the Middle East and no more liked than Bush was. http://tinyurl.com/8lwggbh = http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/14/FLASHBACK-Obama-The-Day-Im-Inaugurated-Muslim-Hostility-Will-Ease
2008 Nomination acceptance speech in front of fake Greek Columns on the football field
Vowed that, just as he would to fundamentally transform America, he would “remake the world once again.”
Wrote two autobiographies before he turned 45. Hubris? Autobiographies that turned out to be not very autobiographical after all, no less. You know, ‘composite people’ and ‘composite or representative circumstances’ and all, throughout the books – and only admitted to after he was caught out about those little factual deficiencies.
Inserted himself into official government website biographies of almost all past presidents http://tinyurl.com/9ysrjra
Likens himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela
Inserted himself into official government ‘Fact Sheets’ about other nations. This is unprescidented, and nation Fact Sheets are supposed to be directly and only about factual information regarding the specific nation.
Created version of American Flag with stars replaced by the “O” Obama campaign logo, and sold for $35 on campaign website. http://tinyurl.com/8p9hcty Then deleted the Obamerican flag from a campaign tweet after complaints were received, but continued selling it from the campaign website.
When we lost Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon 8/24/2012, as a tribute to Neil Armstrong, Obama posts a photo of himself taken several months ago. http://tinyurl.com/8nvzqeh The Ego Has Landed. Irony: The man who gutted the space program and directed NASA to implement a new mission; to improve Muslim relations, posted a picture of himself under a crescent moon in tribute to the first man to walk on the moon…
Used fake Presidential Seal during his pre-presidency campaign
Said he’s the 4th greatest President of all time
Asked to define sin, Barack Obama replied that sin is “being out of alignment with my values.”
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks “a really mean chili.” He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience.
He is “a surprisingly good pool player, so if you ever see me in a pool hall, don’t just think that you can, uh,..” [interviewer inserted “don’t walk up and throw money down”] “that’s exactly what I’m sayin, cause, I might end up cleaning your clock.” he informed an interviewer — not to mention (though he does) a doodler of unusual skill…When he reads a book to children, he starts out by telling them he’s going to do “the best rendition ever.” He constantly talks about being the best.
Further, Washington Democrats say he is all too eager to offer unsolicited advice — on handshakes, writing, and parenting, among other topics. At one of his farewell meetings for White House interns, Mr. Obama dispensed some life advice. “When you all have kids, it’s important to let them win,” he said with a smile. “Until they’re a year old. Then start winning.” So he competes against infants?!
At the 2004 Democratic convention—Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that “I’m LeBron, baby. I can play at this level. I got game.”
Pictures himself as a member of “some of the best basketball players on earth. ”
With a group of basketball legends sitting nearby, Obama said: “It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person,” Aug. 22, 2012
Obama loves to hear himself talk – about himself. In just 41 speeches so this year, not including this week’s big speech at the United Nations, Obama has talked about himself nearly 1,200 times – 1,198 to be exact. (That breaks down to 1,121 “I”s and just 77 “me”s.)
Raffles visit to his Chicago home on his Birthday for $3 per ticket
Sept 2012, Obama is dying to meet you and thank you – if you pay him. “So if you’re someone who is helping to build this campaign, I want to meet you. I want to thank you in person. And I’d love to hear what’s on your mind. This is the last time we’ll be able to sit down together for one of these — so I hope you’ll take me up on it. Your donation of $12 or whatever you’re able to chip in will automatically enter you [in raffle for dinner with him]” http://tinyurl.com/9d47h8b
Obama agreed to an interview with a DJ “Pimp with a Limp.” Asked “How are you, sir?” Obama replied “Blessed and highly favored.” from: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/09/dolphins-dissing-president-obama-chats-pitbull-medicare-on-911-with-pimp-with-the-limp-dj.html#storylink=cpy
When host and veteran journalist Barbara Walters kidded Michelle Obama about bringing the president as her “date,” to an appearance on “The View” Obama quipped, “I’ve been told I’m just eye candy here.”…
During the show, the Obamas joked about their upcoming anniversary and presented the hosts with White House cloth napkins, golf balls, candy and bottles of Obama’s home-brewed beer.
Obama ad: Few presidents have faced so many challenges
As a formal official gift, President Obama and First Lady gave Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II an ipod uploaded with his speeches, photos of his inauguration, and show tunes, plus photos of her visit to the USA.
To “Rational Debate” and others. I find your anti-Obama obsession to be over the top and distatsteful. It is one thing to disagree with a man’s politics. It is quite another to try to turn his name into some kind of swear word.
To Ian H – why do you have a problem with exact quotes directly from Obama himself, and recounting his actions? You believe his own words and actions turn his name into a swear word? Interesting.
Rational Debate just gave us a fabulous recount of great Obamanations of the recent past. Today was his official swearing in, and although it wasn’t the lavish inauguration with Lady Gaga, he did give a short speech. After being sworn in by Justice Michelle, he said, “I did it”.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-i-did-it_696501.html
No torches passed to a new generation, no morning in America, just a simple three word speech in the first person singular. Brevity is the soul of nit.. , oh, never mind.
Pity all his speeches can’t be so to the point.
Whatever the weather, the inauguration today will be a great event for a good man who will go down in history as a great President. Despite it’s problems the USA is fundamentally a decent country which abides by democratic processes and will see past petty jealousies and politics to ensure President Obama’s presidency benefits the country, come rain or shine. Have a great day over there and stay warm.