As is wont to happen when I get together with my parents, dad and I find a quiet spot to sit and chew over politics, current events or any odd or interesting instance that has come to our attention. Currently, dad is perplexed by one of his golf partners. As he describes it, the man is level headed about most things and while their discussions about all manner subjects may conclude with respectful disagreement, the discussions are fact-filled, substantive and rational.
Except where it concerns Barry.
Dad is exasperated whenever the conversation turns in that direction because Golf Buddy becomes, in dad’s words, almost like a Jehovah’s Witness trying to hand you the Watch Tower and proselytizing. Dad cannot get any straight answers from Golf Buddy, either on Barry’s resume or purported policies. Golf Buddy just lapses into Hopey-Changitude.
Unfortunately, for the True Barry Believer, rational arguments and appeals to reason are as useful as trying to split granite with mindbeams.
Take, for instance, Barry’s blatantly false claim of being on the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.
Barry’s claim is easily disproved; however, True Barry Believers are not to be dissuaded or disillusioned.
Which leads me to the Obamaniac Quote of The Day
He just said it was his committee. He didn’t say he was a member.
Dad has a long summer ahead of him. We all do.
Comment by SarahW on 7/24 @ 8:10 am #
O! : that economic policy, policy….
When you gonna give me some time, Committee?
O! : I use you when I run, when I run.
Adopt you as my very own, Committee
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Organized Community Development
of the borrowed kind.
My my my i yi WOOOOOO~ M M M My Committee,,,
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/24 @ 8:12 am #
They’re all his committees. Except Europa. He has to leave that one alone.
Comment by SarahW on 7/24 @ 8:24 am #
To be fair, O! did create all things.
Comment by SuzEQCitizen on 7/24 @ 8:28 am #
This reminds me of a childhood friend of my twenty-eight year old son’s. When I attempted to engage him in a reasonable conversation about Obama by pointing out some very obvious incidents that have occurred in the near past, his response was…ready for this? “You only hear about that stuff on your conservative radio talk shows and blogs.”
It was one of the biggest duh moments of this (highly educated) young man’s life as far as I was concerned. I could only muster a “You think?” response and pity him.
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:29 am #
Your dad’s buddy should give one simple answer:
“Obama is not a member of the party responsible for the atrocious foreign policy of the last 8 years.
And am willing to give at least 4 years to the democratic administration and try to clean up the piles of shit created by Bush and neocons…”
See, how simple, really. Your dead should be satisfied with that answer…
Comment by Jack Klompus on 7/24 @ 8:31 am #
And those who questioned the Messiah’s words were told by the minion to “get a life”.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/24 @ 8:34 am #
Sasha, STFU.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/24 @ 8:37 am #
Sasha you could make that argument to vote for anybody. Here let me show you.
Your dad’s buddy should give one simple answer:
“The Stay Puft Marshmellow Man is not a member of the party responsible for the atrocious foreign policy of the last 8 years.
And am willing to give at least 4 years to the StayPuft administration and try to clean up the piles of shit created by Bush and neocons…â€Â
See how easy that was?
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:37 am #
Rob, you’re funny dude.
Whatever…
Comment by shea versnatch on 7/24 @ 8:39 am #
Democrats not responsible for atrocious foreign policy? Oh, don’t be so modest – the Democrats have been front and center in our foreign policy mess, with their most recent efforts being directed mainly to getting us to surrender before our troops can make the other side to do the same. Trying to reverse 50 years of failed statecraft’s not the atrocity, and some of us think the world actually changed on September 11. But your answer is, I’d agree, very simple. Kind of like you. And, by the way, the only pile of shit around here is you. Fool.
Comment by Dead Germans on 7/24 @ 8:39 am #
Some of the words are changed, but we do know the song.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 8:39 am #
It is odd that human brains wouldn’t be brought up short by such clear contradictions, if only to stop and puzzle for a moment. I mean that’s what they were designed to do, after all. Where is the kill switch, I wonder. Is it in the complex of love molecules that induce marriage and such?
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 8:40 am #
Fixed that for you, sashal.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 8:41 am #
Or is there a ‘my team’ network in the brain that clears all contradiction out of the way so fighting to the death is possible?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/24 @ 8:41 am #
so, nishfong worrying about O!s senility begins when?
Comment by Jack Klompus on 7/24 @ 8:43 am #
Remember folks, every single trouble across the globe originated with Satan Bush and the Neoconica Cabal EVERY SINGLE ONE! Classic dialog with an Obama supporter: Proposition: “Obama appears to be lying about his membership on a Senate committee to try to claim more credit than he deserves for a piece of legislation.” Response: “Bush sucks neo-con neo-con neo-con neo-con shit fuck shit…”
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:44 am #
Exactly, Mr. Pink. Can you blame people not willing to endure another 4 years of republican administration?
Looks like the majority of Americans are of the same opinion.
In 2008 I would vote for the birch tree in the corner, the neighbor’s cat, Jeb Bush, or the Las Vegas prostitute if they would announce running for the office and belonging to the democratic party…lol
And I am the guy who twice helped to overwhelmingly elect republican governors in my state….
Comment by Education Guy on 7/24 @ 8:45 am #
Rainbows and puppies for everyone! Best part is that the rainbows don’t require rain first and the puppies don’t poop, or bite.
Yah! O!
Comment by No One of Consequence on 7/24 @ 8:46 am #
All your committee are belong to us…
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 8:47 am #
“They’re all his committees. Except Europa. He has to leave that one alone.”
Props to Rob for a sweet Roy Scheider shout out.
Darleen,
Does your Dad play for money? Ya know, “Hey Smails! $1,000 bucks you miss that put,” kinda thing? If so, you need to learn him up good on trash talking the messiah while on the green. He could make a fortune off his ‘buddy’ this summer.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 8:47 am #
Ah, fuck it.
Comment by JD on 7/24 @ 8:47 am #
Baracky lies, and nobody cares. He does so with impunity because the MSM is a bunch of Baracky knob-gobblers.
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 8:47 am #
Is Kucinnich still running? BOING!
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:48 am #
BJ, you got it buddy.
Guess what was the reason for my 2000 Bush vote ?
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:48 am #
23, lol. Then I should have brought in alien UFOs too
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 7/24 @ 8:50 am #
Obama is allowed (nay, encouraged) to lie to his supporters as if they were brain-damaged cattle — I mean, if the shoe fits…
Besides, as Peter at Patterico’s pointed out, calling out Barry’s lies is a distraction that won’t help Michelle’s kids get by in this greedy, hopeless, God-clinging, gun-hugging United 57 States of America, where Obama used to be a Senator before he became President.
But comedians can’t make fun of Barry, because there’s nothing “buffoonish” about him (unlike McCain, who is — hold onto your funny bone! — 71-years-old! Hahahahahaha!).
Comment by Ouroboros on 7/24 @ 8:50 am #
It’s a black thing.. You ofay crackers wouldn’t understand..
He was speaking figuratively… like “those are my boys..”, “… my posse..”,
“… my dogs..”, “my niggaz..”, “… my senate commitee..” ..
You know.. they hang out together.. Sip Cristal at the clubs together.. Swap interns.. that sort of thing..
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 8:54 am #
It would be funny to dig out the old Greenwald/Daou essays on Bush followers being a cult. I’m thinking rather than an accurate commentary at the time, it was a prophecy about Obama.
Comment by SarahW on 7/24 @ 8:55 am #
That’s RACIST!
Comment by RC on 7/24 @ 8:55 am #
For those of you that are scifi buffs; Obama and the Clintons and the looney left make me wonder if the first book in E. E. Doc Smith’s Lensman series was more fact than fiction.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 8:56 am #
“It’s a black thing.. You ofay crackers wouldn’t understand..
He was speaking figuratively… like “those are my boys..â€Â, “… my posse..â€Â,
“… my dogs..â€Â, “my niggaz..â€Â, “… my senate commitee..†..
You know.. they hang out together.. Sip Cristal at the clubs together.. Swap interns.. that sort of thing..”
LOL. Shot Gatorade out my nose at that one.
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 7/24 @ 8:57 am #
In 2008 I would vote for the birch tree in the corner, the neighbor’s cat, Jeb Bush, or the Las Vegas prostitute if they would announce running for the office and belonging to the democratic party
Yes, that’s usually how bad leaders get elected. And then we wonder why they suck.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 7/24 @ 9:00 am #
I really hope Obama slips up and uses the expression “you people” at some point during the campaign.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 9:05 am #
Not gonna happen, Jack. Remember what he told us about his early life lessons in dealing with white people.
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 9:06 am #
# 32,lol.
At least I prefer to have beer with my friends only….
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 9:11 am #
Maybe Obama could get former Philly mayor John Street as his running mate and he can declare that “the brothas an’ sistahs are in charge” and have it apply to the whole country not just Killadelphia.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 9:13 am #
Speak slowly and calmly, he said. Don’t make any sudden moves.
Oh, MOVE.
yikes.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 9:22 am #
Howzabout MoveOn trying to paint FoxNews as “racist”, huh. Pretty cool that.
Comment by takeshi kovacs on 7/24 @ 9:23 am #
“No. 38, the Larch, No. 39, the Larch”
“There is no Barak, only Zuul”
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 9:27 am #
“There is no Barak, only Zuulâ€Â
Well, there was, in fact, some funky shit in my refrigerator this morning.
Thought I was just lazy, but it makes sense now.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 9:28 am #
Yeah, but can I talk to Dana?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/24 @ 9:30 am #
And I am the guy who twice helped to overwhelmingly elect republican governors in my state….
So you voted. What, did you want a cookie for that?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 9:35 am #
Word has it Dennis Hof recently had Katie Couric and Soledad O’Brian to his Nevada Bunny Ranch in hopes of teaching them how to properly fellate Barack.
According to his website, ‘Buddy Christ’ likes his balls tugged.
Who knew?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 9:39 am #
“And I am the guy who twice helped to overwhelmingly elect republican governors in my state…”
By that logic, my neighbor’s daughter selected the last winner of American Idol all by herself.
She’ll be so proud. Just like sashal. I can’t wait to tell her.
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 9:41 am #
#38 Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 9:22 am
Howzabout MoveOn trying to paint FoxNews as “racistâ€Â, huh. Pretty cool that.
Dude I was in a frat at Penn with MoveOn’s first exec director. Never have the terms “tool” and “wanker” applied any better.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 9:42 am #
“Yeah, but can I talk to Dana?”
What a lovely singing voice you must have.
1000ccs of thorazine for sashal.
STAT!
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 9:49 am #
Jack X Liberia Liberate Africa Sub Continent Boo-Yah:
Sigma Chi, U of Penn, ‘74-78. most of my fraternity brothers were too drunk or stoned to have time to be tolls or wankers.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/24 @ 9:49 am #
Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad he wasn’t in TKE was he?
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 9:49 am #
“tools” (like me)
Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/24 @ 9:49 am #
Obama is going to kick ass in November unless someone can invent a tool to pry the MSM’s lips off his dick. It’s kinda funny though, because they do all the sucking, but they’re the ones who get the big O!
Probably because O! is the second cumming…
Comment by Log Cabin on 7/24 @ 9:50 am #
“In 2008 I would vote for the birch tree in the corner, the neighbor’s cat, Jeb Bush, or the Las Vegas prostitute if they would announce running for the office and belonging to the democratic party…lol”
Nyet! I am not worried about the Bolsheviks. Let them get in power and rid us of the useless government we have now. They will stop the war and spread the wealth of the greedy rich around to all of us. But we need a change from the current system. Any change must be for the better.
- Average Russian person, 1918
Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/24 @ 9:51 am #
Ouch!
That was pretty low – even for me…
I’ll try to do better, and I thoroughly renounce and denounce myself!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/24 @ 9:52 am #
I went on a road trip to Penn once to the TKE chapter there it was a blast. Never have I seen so much projectile vomiting in one place. They have ski lodges as frat houses too the rich aholes.
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 9:52 am #
Without the election, of course, log cabin.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 9:54 am #
“Dude I was in a frat at Penn with MoveOn’s first exec director. Never have the terms “tool†and “wanker†applied any better.”
Go over to another thread and meet nishi.
And don’t use the word ‘frat.’ And don’t admit to anyone else that you were in one with him.
And don’t get me wrong. I was in one too. The crest read ‘No Tools & No Wankers.’ At least I think that’s what it said. It was in latin, so who knows. Nevertheless, it wasn’t a ‘frat.’. It was more a ‘collective bargaining agreement designed to pull good looking ass.’
Also, we had to paint an old lady’s house once.
You know, ‘community service’ and whatnot.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/24 @ 10:00 am #
I’ve decided my comedic center point coming up here will be to constantly riff on Oprah’s depiction of Obama as “The One.”
That’s just too creepy.
I need to get a black trench coat and some sunglasses, though. And maybe dig up those two Columbine kids.
Comment by Thomass on 7/24 @ 10:00 am #
“He just said it was his committee. He didn’t say he was a member.”
Heh, reminds me of my two year old. When we see ants in the house and I say ‘oh, there are ants in the house’, she always says ‘they’re MY ants’.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/24 @ 10:02 am #
“I saw a comment on Hot Air that nailed the Obama phenomenon right on the head: Beer goggles. It’s like half the country is so drunk that they see this bumbling doofus as some sort of studly genius, and frankly, I’m embarrassed for these people.”
-Rachel Lucas
http://www.rachellucas.com/
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 10:02 am #
Penn Pi Lambda Phi 87-91. Fancied itself “alternative” because we would book the Dead Milkmen and Yo La Tengo to play and let the West Philly anarcho-douchebags into our parties. I’d walk by and say “…and that’s my house!” like only a member of a Senate committee would say…oh shit wait…
Comment by Thomass on 7/24 @ 10:04 am #
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 8:37 am #
“Rob, you’re funny dude.
Whatever…”
Whatever right back at you man. Your more ‘complex’ answer was still just an insular circular argument that only true believers would use….
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/24 @ 10:07 am #
Comment by RC on 7/24 @ 8:55 am #
I’m re-reading the whole series right now.
I have them all in .doc format.
Hmmmm, maybe I should change my username to “Gharlane of Eddore”.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 7/24 @ 10:07 am #
“And maybe dig up those two Columbine kids.”
I dunno if it’s ‘too soon,’ but that made me laugh.
When I think of ‘The One,’ I think of Jet Li beating the shit out of himself.
Which makes me think of Obama.
Jeff is a genius. Like ‘Rainman’ genius.
Go ahead doubters. Drop a box of toothpicks and see.
Comment by Great Banana on 7/24 @ 10:09 am #
Sasahal,
I love how your tactics have changed to try and be a “moby”. Your new argument appears to be “hey, I voted for republicans in the past and I now realize how evil and stupid the evil and stupid bush is and am voting for Obama because bush is evil and stupid.” the implication of this asinine argument of yours is that we should find your “argument” (yes, I put that in scare quote b/c you never actually make a reasoned argument based on facts, thus you merely state beliefs, you do not debate or argue) credible and persauasive, b/c, after all, you claim you were once one of us.
the funny thing is, you probably believe that you are clever and that you are making a good argument. When in reality, you simply repeat ad nauseaum, “bush is evil and stupid.”
Or, shorter me, why do you waste our time with your kindergarten thinking? If you represent the average intelligence of a leftist (and despite your unbelievable lies, you are a total and complete leftist based on all the positions you have taken in comments at this site) I would not vote for a democrat if it was proven that the republican running for office was satan himself. That is just how stupid I perceive you to be based upon your writings at this site.
Now, I have read comments (and or posts or opinion pieces) from other leftists and at least respect the writer – even if I disagree – b/c the writer uses actual facts and logic in their arguments. You do not do this, and appear to be unable to. I frankly question whether you graduated high school.
So, again, why do you write here? All you do is hurt your cause b/c it reinforces to us just how ignorant and lacking in intellectual capacity the average leftist is. Do you really believe that your claim to have voted for a republican in the past – even if it were true, which it is not – will convince us that bush is evil and stupid and we must vote for the wholly unqualified and unintelligent and extreme leftist Obama? Really? Are you that stupid?
Instead of coming here and repeating ad nauseum that bush is evil and stupid – how about you attempt to point out any reason to vote for Obama? I know that would be difficult to do as you can’t point to his positions (they change radically each day) or his experience (he has none) or his charecter (that has proven to be questionable based on his associations). But at least then you might be contributing something other than your kindergarten taunts.
Comment by Great Banana on 7/24 @ 10:17 am #
Sashal,
In fact, let me reverse your thinking for you. I am ashamed of this now, but I was once a full-on liberal and I not only voted for Clinton in 1992, I volunteered heavily for his campaign in the county in which I lived.
Does the fact that I once drank the same Kool-Aid that you now drink make you change your mind and believe, as I do, that compared to the alternatives, Bush was the best choice in 2000 and 2004? Or, does it make you believe – as I do – that Bush has been an above-average president (not great, I disagree with him on many issues) and may even rise to be considered a top tier president in historical analysis based on how Iraq and Afghanistan do or do not transform the middle east?
Does my past liberalism give you pause and make you change your mind? If not, why do you believe that your claims of having voted for a republican in the past should alter my analysis?
Comment by mojo on 7/24 @ 10:22 am #
I’d go with Jet Li as “The One” myself, Jeff. Start kicking down street lamps and stuff, really get the crowd worked up.
Plus, there’s Carla Gugino, much hotter than that other broad.
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 10:22 am #
#63-4 Great Banana: well put across the board. I remember being smitten by Jerry Brown in ‘92!
Comment by Sean M. on 7/24 @ 10:31 am #
He didn’t claim he was a member of the committee, he just said it was his. Because, you know, he owns the government. But Michelle still can’t get any goddamn fruit for the kids.
Well, that’s Barackracy for you.
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 7/24 @ 10:45 am #
But Michelle still can’t get any goddamn fruit for the kids.
“Let them eat $600 earrings!”
—Michelle Antoinette
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/24 @ 10:57 am #
Because of the BOLSHEVISTS!!!!
Comment by Aldo on 7/24 @ 11:04 am #
Eric Hoffer explained all of this back in 1951.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/24 @ 11:08 am #
Once again, PW has made me way late for work. It’s a good thing that I work for myself, or I would have been fired long ago. Todays threads are hilarious, and I appreciate this little sanctuary more than I can believe.
O! believers must be hyp-mo-tized. Nothing that O! does affects them, even if it sets off screeching alarms in the head of anyone with half a brain. “Hep me! Hep me! I must be hyp-mo-tized!” Makes no sense to me, but then again, since Clinton was elected, not much has made any sense.
So, before I actually pull my fat butt off of this chair, I have an OT question.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make any noise?
I don’t know, but one huge (and I mean HUGE) fuckin’ tree just fell about four feet from my window, and it made plenty of noise. Scared the living shit out of me actually.
Happy Thursday.
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 11:17 am #
TLD: I reply with the Steven Wright Gem:
“If a tree falls in the forest and kills a mime, does anybody care?”
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 11:25 am #
Obama in Berlin: “…like you, a proud citizen of the world…”
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 11:26 am #
Obama: Oh and by the way, if you hadn’t noticed, I’m black.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 7/24 @ 11:30 am #
He just said it was his committee. He didn’t say he was a member.
This is so classic. They’re actively propping up covering for Captain Bullshit. Hilarious.
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 11:35 am #
I’m black, and I don’t look like other Americans that have come here before to talk to all you black Germans and your black Prime Ministers.
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 11:35 am #
Sdferr- did you notice the “proud citizen of America” line didn’t get any applause?
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 11:39 am #
Yeah, MayBee I did. But who the fuck in their right mind would want to be a proud American citizen and admit as much before a bunch of Krauts?
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 11:43 am #
I hope they served wurst and had Kraftwerk and the Scorpions play.
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 11:45 am #
“What we do with this moment”
I wonder if the Germans are as conditioned to think that every 4 years, the world is about to end and we are on the verge of “the moment”.
Or is he the moment?
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 11:47 am #
I’m sick of hearing about his father being drawn to American shores. He stayed what? 2 years?
Comment by mojo on 7/24 @ 11:50 am #
Still just not up there with Dickie Nixon, who famously stated during his historic trip to China: “Truly this IS a great wall.”
The new O’Bambi Theme Song
Rammstein: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY
Comment by Old Dad on 7/24 @ 12:01 pm #
You people are like so RACIST!!!
Baracky bought that committee fair and square on eBay.
Google it.
Comment by jdm on 7/24 @ 12:01 pm #
I’m probably hopelessly behind all the cool people who have now gone on to something else, but I found the following comment to From an article on Pajamas Media that I think sort of answers Darleen’s question:
> Orwell had it right.
>
> 5-10% population educate themselves, make more or
> less informed political decisions on the basis of ideology
> or economics, care about the results.
> 30% of the population engage in the 5-minute hate. That’s
> all there is; my tribe, its politicians, and its acts are right,
> your tribe and leaders and positions are wrong.
> 60% don’t care
Not quite the wording I would prefer, but otherwise a pretty
good distillation.
Comment by Jeff Y. on 7/24 @ 12:19 pm #
As Bush said in the South Park 9/11 episode, “One fourth of the entire population is retarded.”
Comment by Education Guy on 7/24 @ 12:19 pm #
I’m intrigued by the idea of electing a Las Vegas prostitute as POTUS. This is the kind of thinking we need.
Comment by Education Guy on 7/24 @ 12:22 pm #
It worries me a little that a man who is incapable of securing fruit for his children may not be the best choice for the leader of the free world. Crazy talk, I know. But there it is.
Comment by BJTex on 7/24 @ 12:36 pm #
Pshaw, EG! Everybody knows that a half drowned rabid, retarded Chihuahua with rabies, eczema and a festering sore where his face should be would still be an improvement over 8 years of Chimpy McHitlerBloodOil and his sidelick Growly O’Stalin Burton Buckshot.
FOR THE PUPPIESES!
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 12:52 pm #
88. Now ice the cake: jump up and down and pound your fists and bring yourself to tears repeatedly saying “NeoCons!NeoCons!NeoCons!NeoCons!NeoCons!NeoCons!”
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 7/24 @ 12:52 pm #
EG: “I’m intrigued by the idea of electing a Las Vegas prostitute as POTUS. This is the kind of thinking we need.”
Why, you tired of the Ivy League educated prostitutes?
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 12:54 pm #
Banana, I know me and the majority of Americans have very simplistic approach. 8 years of Bush administration was enough for us(see, I have different opinion then yours on his quality as president)and we do not see McCain as somebody much different or any improvement.
We also do not think that your meme about Obama being commie pinko Marxist is true either.
Sorry, our views are different, may be it is a sign of my stupidity as you wisely noticed.
Nothing I can do about it.
At least I am happy with Jody Rell. For now.
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 12:55 pm #
#88, BJtex. Excellent comment. LOL
Comment by sashal on 7/24 @ 12:57 pm #
EG 86.
What the hell, Italians elected porno model to the parlament.
I think we should show them…
Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 1:03 pm #
None dare call it religion. Especially the hard and fast separation-clause constitutionalists known as Democrats.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/24 @ 1:07 pm #
Fricka fracka zeeble bop Bush, Bush, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSHHHHHHHH!
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 7/24 @ 1:14 pm #
sashal: “We also do not think that your meme about Obama being commie pinko Marxist is true either.”
Obama couldn’t be a Marxist — he’d need to have some grounding in economics first. Obama is an economic incompetent whose biggest problem with $4.00 gasoline is that it happened too quickly. I’m waiting for him to promise to revoke the law of supply and demand, just to complete his divorce from reality.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/24 @ 1:17 pm #
Hey, GB. At least sashal was gracious enough to make your point for you in #91.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/24 @ 1:20 pm #
Yeah, who cares about the people he associates with, the organizations he works with, or the policies he supports?
Comment by charles austin on 7/24 @ 1:28 pm #
I think the quote, from Juan Gato, is “Zeeble bop fickle fackle bush! Bush!! BUSH!!!”
Other pop culture moments of zen from the threads above:
Heh, heh, you said member.
With respect to the my stuff, my personal my stuff favorite is Stephen in Braveheart saying, “It’s my island.” I think it’s the crazy eyes and grin that does it for me.
The train of thought that believes anything is better helped elect Adolf Hitler. There. I’ve just killed the thread.
Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 1:44 pm #
Right. “We”. Anyway, come back in 8 years and tell us this isn’t the beginning of the death of reason.
Exactly. So, like, with that self-awareness, maybe question your own vote, eh?
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 1:44 pm #
99. channeling the ghost of Shirley from What’s Happening?: “Oooooooooooh girl! Oooh no you din’int….You went all Hitler an’ sheeeit????? Mmmm….mm..mm..mm!!!!!!”
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/24 @ 2:01 pm #
“Exactly. So, like, with that self-awareness, maybe question your own vote, eh?”
Yep. especially, if you’re going to continue calling yourself a conservative.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/24 @ 2:14 pm #
He means that in the European sense — opposed to spreading liberty and intent on cementing the current economic structure/status.
Comment by charles austin on 7/24 @ 2:14 pm #
I think the technical term for that is Tory.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 2:24 pm #
Obama may have patterned himself on Putney Swope.
Putney says the Borman Six girl has got to have soul.
Comment by mojo on 7/24 @ 2:26 pm #
So what’s got the proggies all stirred up today? Is it Spengler’s birthday or something?
Comment by Jack X Klompus Africa-Muhammad on 7/24 @ 2:37 pm #
#106 – Haha. Actually did a birthday check and discovered coincidentally that Chomsky was born on Dec. 7th. He probably still bakes two cakes.
Comment by Neo on 7/24 @ 2:51 pm #
Some more to chew on …
Obama is the primary sponsor of the “Global Poverty Act (110th Congress, 2d Session, S. 2433),” which if passed would mandate the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of the gross national product on foreign aid, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 2:59 pm #
Arrggh, that’s depressing reading Neo.
Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 3:16 pm #
Darleen, might the subject/link of post #108 warrant it’s own post? Or Jeff? That’s some staggering stuff.
Comment by Blitz on 7/24 @ 4:00 pm #
# 63 Great Banana…
I’m even worse than you and I Uber denounce and condemn myself for this but…I was for JIMMAH in ‘76.
I was only 14 at the time though, and have been a Reagan repub since then. Is there a possibility of a Special Dispensation from the PW crowd?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/24 @ 4:51 pm #
Rob at #103, yeah I get that, but his ass ain’t living in Europe anymore, so he needs to let that go. The only conservative that I’m interested is the American kind. I also get his yearning for isolationism, though I disagree with it yet still sympathetic. But the BDS shit needs a rest. My 9 year old doesn’t whine as much.
Comment by Darleen on 7/24 @ 6:29 pm #
JH
I just got in … I’ve been in training/classes all day with nary a ‘puter in sight to see what’s up. #108 is startling and I’m going to look into it right away.
Thanks Neo!
Comment by Fletch on 7/24 @ 7:19 pm #
lybd-
Well, there was, in fact, some funky shit in my refrigerator this morning.
I can relate! I had some leftover hamburger that turned truly “toxic”- which might possibly be related to my recent 16 day “drunken binge”…
I opened the Glad container and took a “sniff”- then quickly closed it, and put it back in the fridge- because “trash day” was still another 5 days away…
“I pity the fool”! (who will collect my trash tomorrow morning).
Comment by ahem on 7/24 @ 7:34 pm #
They always come out when the going gets rough. hTe hostility level around here is going to be intense right before the election. Stay tuned.