Comments on: Obama gets a new Latin slogan: “Vero Possumus”

By: Tolmie Erik Wachter

Tolmie Erik Wachter — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:46:22 +0000

Unlike Mr. Adams (August 6th comment) I found the exchange to have been refreshingly frank, and I am heartened by this evidence that the American public are not to be taken in by flash, arrogance and socialist platitudes. Regarding the perceptions of other nations, the concept of sovereignity is generally lost upon globalists. We should just proceed do what is right, and let them think what they may. I only hope that this forum is still available to us if the Democrats get into office and push for reimposition of the “Fairness” Doctrine and other restrictions which curtail free exchange of ideas. God bless the USA.

By: John Cole Adams

John Cole Adams — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:03:07 +0000

I am utterly amazed by the petty bickering and nonsense that you guys (well, not all of you, of course, but some of you above) engage in about this issue; and even more sadly, the way that you seem to think it normal to display such brutally childish and defensive, almost bitchy points of view about an election. It is a great shame for America that it is now, in the eyes of most of the developed world (not to mention a lot of the under-developed world) is regarded as a rather narrow-minded, nationalist, ignorant nation. It is those few, loud, catty, defensive voices that soil the reputation of the rest of the land, for they are the loudest and most whiny.

By: J. T. Cooper

J. T. Cooper — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:04:48 +0000

Vero Possumus doesn’t mean what Obama says it means. To replace this motto and to give him a new name, I would substitute the Latin phrase “Veto Possumus”, which means Veto the Possum. I would suggest The Possum as his new nickname. He has a grin resembling that of a Possum eating excrement. These young androids who are going to vote for him so that he can “change” things are going to have a rude awakening, similar to those who followed Hitler, and later found out that Germany suffered as a result.
Veto the Possum, or Veto Barack Oppossum!

By: Liberty Guerrilla

Liberty Guerrilla — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:23:50 +0000

We have here the combination of the worst qualities of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton with a touch of Bush arrogance. Obama is immersed in the sense of inevitablity, but so was Hillary just a year ago. Hopefully these antics will reveal that Obama is an empty shell to those who have seen him as a political messiah. From John Kennedy to this, how pathetic for the Democrats and the U.S.

By: Great American

Great American — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:16:44 +0000

I still can’t believe how Barack Obama can be interpreted as anything less than American. He is not rich, he got into great schools based on his academic merits, he is of mixed race and a first generation American on his father’s side.

He does not appeal to white or black America because of his exterior (he is of mixed race). He is not a trust fund baby or an elitist by any stretch of the imagination so it confounds me when people actually portray him as an elite, arrogant, rich kid. He is likable because he is fallible, he is believable because he is inexperienced, and he is going to be president because America wants an end to the tyranny of an elite political system that no longer listens to the electorate.

This election marks the beginning of a new age in the Republic where citizens will take back our freedom and dismantle the corrupt engine that is weakening the fabric of our democracy. The mixed racial kid with the big brain and the ability to excel academically in the ivy league is part of the solution, not the problem and any rhetoric contrary to that fact is just nonsense.

By: sva50233

sva50233 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:11:38 +0000

Barack Obama is a portentious, arrogant, high-brow elitist who went to Harvard, goes to parties and drinks martinis while smoking cigarettes, and thinks that he will be president and pander to the middle class. LAWLZZ

By: Gangsta J

Gangsta J — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:32:27 +0000

Anyone who wants to prosecute Obama for a slightly silly, obviously unofficial, reinterpretation of the presidential seal is freakin nutzoid.

And by the way, to the person who translated “vero possumus ” as “in truth to have influence or be able”, you totally failed Latin.

O Liz, non latine loqui potes.

By: Robby Gordo

Robby Gordo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:51:20 +0000

WASN’T THERE A CARTOON STRIP ABOUT POSSUMS? POGO? THAT’LL BE A GOLD MINE OF JOKES!

THE POSSUM PRESIDENT!

TO BE A POSSUM OR NOT A POSSUM? THAT IS THE POSSIBILITY, MY DEAR AMERICAN POSSUMS! VERO, POSSUMUS!

By: Robby Gordo

Robby Gordo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:46:44 +0000

Vero Possumus translated means “We are possums, USA. Roll over and play dead for Barack!”

WE ARE NOT POSSUMS

By: Invictus Maneo

Invictus Maneo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:01:31 +0000

‘Vero Possumus’, eh? This does NOT translate to “Yes we can”, as purported. What an idiot…. A small man playing at being president.

Maybe he really is trying to tell us is “In Truth, I’m a ‘Possum.” He’s laying low and pretending to be a moderate until he can walk away with the Presidency as the far left Liberal his record indicates.

Perhaps he’s signaling that he wants to join “Possum Lodge”; ala the Red Green Show. Their motto would make more sense for Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama: Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati — “When all else fails, play dead.”
Invictus Maneo