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I’m glad this is stirring the pot so much lately, and in a bad way. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fella. Holy Man has ventured off-court, again, and it falls to not-quite-a-racist-fear-mongering-young-earth-creationist-conservative John Stewart to blow the whistle.
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So Obama is way too smart to listen to people like me, who think controversial things like…businesses hire more people when it’s less expensive for them to do business. And He’s way too smart to listen to His “base,” which thinks all kinds of moderate, straightforward, common-sense things like…we need to confirm our nominees for the Supreme Court based on how funny they are, and Bush caused 9-11 to happen because fire doesn’t melt steel.
If I wrote a character into a fictional novel and the character was based on Barack Obama, I’d have a scene just for that one character. He’d be talking in a back room somewhere with one of his trusted advisers, and he’d deliver a line. Some glorious, defining, “offer he can’t refuse” kind of line. Something like:
“Stop it with the if-this-then-that, what’ll happen if this, what’ll happen if that. And stop it with the what-do-you-stand-for. You still don’t get it, do you? I just want to do what I want to do.”
Something shorter than that, something that comes out with a rhythm to it. But says exactly that. That defines the character. That defines the personality.
A normal person says…I want to do this, but the consequences are not acceptable. Or it’ll piss somebody off. Usually, when I say that, it has something to do with throwing a heavy object at my teevee. You probably have your own examples to offer.
I think Barack Obama has that same pecking-order going on in His head with pros and cons of doing things. Except in His Holy Dome, “what I want to do” is the eight hundred pound gorilla. Nothing…nothing…emerges victorious after going up against it. It trumps all. Barack wants to do it.
He’s given so many speeches over the last two years, and not a single syllable He’s had to offer has ever directly contradicted what I just wrote about Him. It seems to fit the Barack we all know, and explain Him perfectly well.
Hat tip to Ace.
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Stop whinning. Stop complaining.
Then he proceeds to complain. Wierd.
And, um, isn’t the car still squarely in the ditch? I think that’s where his metaphor falls apart for even the people who buy the “Republican policies of the ‘last 8 years’ (which isn’t the last 8 years anymore, by the way) caused the collapse” narrative.
- philmon | 10/02/2010 @ 18:48And, um, isn’t the car still squarely in the ditch?
Took the words right out of my mouth, Philmon. When I read your comment, I was just about to ask the obvious question, “Er, unemployment at 10% nationally & and higher than that in dozens of states, more money spent than all previous Administrations COMBINED, an unpopular healthcare bill crammed down our throats, and that’s just on the domestic front. Compared to unemployment half what it is now, a fraction of the foreclosure rate, the deficit a fraction what it is now….by what tortured logic does one say that the previous Administration drove car into a ditch, much less make the argument that the Obambi Administration is making any serious effort to get the car unstuck?”
I’m so sick of this president and his ranting and raving. No really, I’m tired of it. Clinton was out there every day whining and pissing about how those nasty Republicans wouldn’t let him implement his progressive agenda, but he had nothing on this clown. And I defy anyone to show me a clip of Bush griping about the opposition party and waving his arms around in the process.
On a side note, this was the second Stewart clip that I actually laughed at. I really could respect this guy more if he’d do this more often – take some swipes at the other side for a change. Political humor is a lot easier for me to tolerate if I see the comedian hitting both sides, rather than ripping on conservatives only and in short, acting like a damn hypocrite.
- cylarz | 10/02/2010 @ 22:44