September 9, 2008
Democratic Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss the social construction of gender and how it obtains in the current electoral climate

obama pic “…So. Ain’t this some shit…?”

image “I hear you, brother man. I mean, at least in my day when we had to pretend to take them seriously they had the good sense to go without bras and embrace that whole ‘free love’ business. Nowadays, though, it’s like, ‘Christ, don’t you bitches have an oven to clean or something…?”**

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  1. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 2:46 pm #

    ::Thinks of oven and is ashamed::

  2. Comment by Pierre Legrand on 9/9 @ 2:50 pm #

    Sarah in Short Shorts…trapping the perverted left by the hundreds.
    SARAH PALIN IN SHORT SHORTS…

    I’m so ashamed of myself…

  3. Comment by B Moe on 9/9 @ 3:12 pm #

    I think The King has something to add to this conversation:
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dCBT7PfAEgc&feature=related

  4. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 3:12 pm #

    - Sarah – Political Viagra!

    - ….and make me a damn sammich woman. (smacks her tush)

  5. Comment by The Lost Dog on 9/9 @ 3:15 pm #

    Well. I don’t know about you, but I am going to Google this for the rest of the night – or at least until it comes up #1 on any search.

    If it already is #1, I am going out to get drunk and play bluegrass music.

    Yup!

  6. Comment by Pablo on 9/9 @ 3:18 pm #

    Yo, M’chelle! Ain’t we got no fruit up in this bitch? Can’t a brother get an apple?

  7. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 3:20 pm #

    I cannot figure out if this is more sexist, or more racist.

  8. Comment by kelly on 9/9 @ 3:21 pm #

    I’m going with both.

  9. Comment by mojo on 9/9 @ 3:26 pm #

    I denounce you all!

  10. Comment by poppa india on 9/9 @ 3:32 pm #

    B Moe-Scroll down to the Big Joe Turner version, he’s got the Protein Wisdom band backing him.

  11. Comment by Teddy 08! on 9/9 @ 3:49 pm #

    Didn’t want to laugh at this, but couldn’t help it. It’s just flat-out funny! Will now go clean oven – NOT!

  12. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 3:56 pm #

    Baracky always is pictured with that staring off into the heavens gaze.

  13. Comment by B Moe on 9/9 @ 4:01 pm #

    Damn! I almost went with Big Joe, just thought Elvis fit in to the cultural thang a little better, if I had noticed the Pw it would have been Joe all the way.

  14. Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/9 @ 4:30 pm #

    #12 JD:

    Baracky always is pictured with that staring off into the heavens gaze.

    That look is the favorite one for the ‘Dear Leader’ and all other ‘vanguard of the proletariat’ types. Their favorite artists have used it so much that it has become cliche. (See the backgrounds in the ‘I’m So Ronery’ song in ‘Team America’).

  15. Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 4:38 pm #

    Billy Jack just understand the concept of self-cleaning ovens. It ranks right up there with the hip-friendly laundry basket.

  16. Comment by serr8d on 9/9 @ 4:39 pm #

    Baracky always is pictured with that staring off into the heavens gaze.

    Must be a teleprompter there. Slaved, always within his line of sight.

  17. Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 4:39 pm #

    Billy Jack just doesn’t …

    I need some sleep. Or coffee.

    Or a beer.

  18. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 4:39 pm #

    All the basketball girls had that awful shag haircut.

  19. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 4:39 pm #

    Is it wrong that every time I see a picture of Ward Churchill, I want to dropkick him. Then maybe drop an elbow on him from the top rope?

  20. Comment by RTO Trainer on 9/9 @ 4:57 pm #

    Billy Jack never talks to Republicans?

  21. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 4:59 pm #

    Jerk

    “Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”

    “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night. ”

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/09/obama-attacks-gop-tickets-mantra-of-change/

  22. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 5:04 pm #

    So now, Baracky is calling Gov. Palin a pig? Niiiiiiiiice.

  23. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 5:06 pm #

    Haha I can hear it now : HE WAS MISQUOTED !!!!! OBAMA DIDNT MEAN PALIN WAS A PIG !! HE ..HE… RIGHT WING BLOGGERS !!! CHRISTIANS !!! JEWS !!!!

    Rove you magnificent bastard. How you have pulled this off, I have no idea.

    Is “Gaffebama” taken ? Cause I’d like to tm it if not.

  24. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:08 pm #

    Oh, Dre, and don’t miss the “old fish” bonus comment.

    He hates him some wimmins.

  25. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 5:08 pm #

    It’s on Drudge now

  26. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:10 pm #

    - That mofo can bend over and kiss his semi-black ass goodbye as far as any meaningful womans vote. He just ley his cutyness glib elitist mouth totally screw any support from that demographic.

    - If I was McCain, I’d end every ad with the vid of that statement.

    - Fuck his royal bullshitness.

  27. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 5:14 pm #

    This is freakin’ priceless.

  28. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 5:16 pm #

    This actually reminds me somewhat of the infamous “Macacca” incident. I wonder if he knew he was being taped- every phones a doorway to youtube in this day and age. Pretty dumb thing to say if so.

  29. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 5:16 pm #

    O! is working with Jeff G. I’m sure of this.

  30. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:21 pm #

    I’m angrier at the other double-entendre…some real misogyny behind that.

  31. Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/9 @ 5:27 pm #

    So….
    Who is the real natural politician?
    The one that decided to work with the machine?
    Or the one that left the machine curled up in the corner whimpering ‘make the bad woman go away’?

  32. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:29 pm #

    - Yes Sarah. I read the whole passage over at drudge….FOX just showed the “pig” part. You’d have to be a door stop not to see how he was trying to thumb his nose at that which he fears most, coached in a so-called message of changiness.

    - The Left just can’t seem to help itself. And this other bullshit about saying that his people should not be sating anything about the kids. Not 5 minutes later his campaign issues a statement questioning her sincerity concerning special need children.

    - What a fuckhead, leading all the other fuckheads.

  33. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:31 pm #

    - They got away with it once with Hillery, because it was on their own side with all their lunatics. They won’t get away with it on this side of the divide.

  34. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 5:32 pm #

    The old fish part is not very artful either. Tar babies !!!

    Again, denunciations ensue. Will Baracky throw himself under the back of the bus?

  35. Comment by JD on 9/9 @ 5:34 pm #

    He really is just a small man.

  36. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 5:34 pm #

    ‘Christ, don’t you bitches have an oven to clean or something…? “

  37. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:37 pm #

    No, I’ve got a fake baby in my oven.

  38. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:37 pm #

    Sorry.

  39. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 5:37 pm #

    Cool. Now I have reason to put up an asterisk with a link. Thanks, O!

  40. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:37 pm #

    That is not the oven I knew.

  41. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:39 pm #

    Old. Fish.

    He went there. Contempt for the ho’s, it makes a brother look strong.

  42. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 5:42 pm #

    Bros before Hos

  43. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:44 pm #

    - The message taken as a whole, and considering it was aimed at his elitist, sexist, racist audience, was channeled straight from thor-nutz.

    - “If you don’t want the country being run by a low brow, poorly educated, small town hitch from a backwaters state, vote for me, your messiah.”

    - I think CandyMan just “Swiftboated” himself.

  44. Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 5:45 pm #

    “Does this lipstick make me look like a pig?”

  45. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:45 pm #

    - That lipstick just highlights your beauty Carin.

  46. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 5:46 pm #

    Well, to be fair, the lipstick on a pig thing was likely not meant to demean Palin’s personage, just the policies. But couple it with the “old fish” line and you have to think these remarks are either pointed that way, or else politically tone deaf.

    Just my two cents.

    And believe me, that McCain votes with Bush 90% of the time is going to come back and bite Obama in the ass, soundbite wise. It’s just a big old hanging slider begging to be hit out of the park.

  47. Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 5:46 pm #

    Now what do Baracky’s ears remind me of ? OH YES, they remind me that I’m a racist.

    I’m punchy tonight. Ignore me.

  48. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:48 pm #

    Oh, Neo at ASHQ linked the video, though it cuts off before he gets around to complaining of fish smell.

    Listen to him talk. Watch him be slightly floppy preacher-man, Rev. Wright style. He knows exactly what he is saying, and he enjoys the crowd’s response.

  49. Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 5:49 pm #

    Everyone KNOWS women fear being compared to a pig. We’re sensitive about our weight. CERTAINLY baracky know this, and he meant to demean Palin.
    I’m OUTRAGED. Or something.

    Let’s not be niggerdly with the sexist assumptions and sensitivities.

  50. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 5:50 pm #

    Old fish = McCain

  51. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 5:51 pm #

    - Ahem. I think in some circles they’re referred to as male love handles, but if I were a woman that thought would make me urp in the back of my mouth a little.

    - Jeff. Its just to “cute” to buy it as totally innocent and “out of context” as the Left will try to screech.

    - He really stepped in it this time.

    - Axelrod must be right on the edge of resigning, unless hes actually that dumb. I think Obama lets rip with these glib off the cuff comments on his own.

  52. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 5:57 pm #

    It’s actually a bit of desperate demagoguery to diminish and belittle the woman on the ticket, while also complaining of general faults of his opponents.
    He did it on purpose, in the style of attack he’s used to (the sly crack, the nonchalant emphasis with hands on face, to get the crowd roaring).

    Don’t be askeered of that woman, says Baracky. Look, I can crack on her. She aint’ nothing.

  53. Comment by phreshone on 9/9 @ 5:59 pm #

    Old fish = McCain

    Maybe I’m a little baser than the next person, but that’s not how I took it…

  54. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:01 pm #

    JeffG

    Well, to be fair, the lipstick on a pig thing was likely not meant to demean Palin’s personage, just the policies. But couple it with the “old fish” line and you have to think these remarks are either pointed that way, or else politically tone deaf.

    If you listen to the audio, with the guffaws and snickers in the audience to the “lipstick” line, it wasn’t an accident nor meant to apply to the policies. It was a deliberate “in joke” based on Palin’s “pit bull” signature line.

    Obama called Palin a pig. Clearly. Deliberately.

    Maybe in pique, because O! really is rattled and lashing out. But it was no more a mistake than his “bitterly clinging to guns and religion” line.

    O! didn’t have the balls to put Hillary on his ticket, and Gov. Palin scares the crap out of him.

  55. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:01 pm #

    -#53

    - Exactly

  56. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:03 pm #

    Here’s the Youtube clip

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg

  57. Comment by phreshone on 9/9 @ 6:04 pm #

    Lipstick comment. He meant it both ways (McCain=Bush, Sarah=Pig) but the delivery comes across 98% as a dig against Sarah, who should yielding a can of Easy-Off instead of pissing on his Corn Flakes before the Corination

  58. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:04 pm #

    Remember when O! was rattled by an insistent reporter and dismissed her with a “sweety”?

    O! has issues with real women

  59. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 6:07 pm #

    Maybe so. But the expression gives him plausible deniability. I’m just not ready to lynch him for it.

    (See what I did there?)

  60. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:07 pm #

    SarahW

    Ah!! Sorry, you got the a link … I had skipped down without reading all the comments.

    I agree … in print the line CAN be taken innocently, but watching the video and the reaction of the crowd, no way.

  61. Comment by phreshone on 9/9 @ 6:07 pm #

    O! has issues with real women

    If you had to listen to Michelle all day, you would have issues too

  62. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 6:08 pm #

    Its definately red meat thrown to the faithful. That was my point. I think somehow, the Messiah (may he live forever) is under the impression that the media will not … necessarily cover “everything” he says to the faithful. And again, he forgets in this day and age, every person in the crowd can be a spy, every spy can be a celebrity.

    And the only folks who worry about that are those people who have something to hide when they’re “preaching to the faithful”.

  63. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:10 pm #

    JeffG

    Yes, I do. But I don’t know why I have to give him of the benefit of a doubt with all the word playing O! has been doing lately.

    Couple that with Joe Biden’s backhanded slam against Palin with his comment that people who don’t support embryonic stem cell research don’t really care about special needs kids and you are getting viciousness that is breathtaking.

  64. Comment by dre on 9/9 @ 6:11 pm #

    “I’m just not ready to lynch him for it.”

    I denounce you and that golf commentator.

  65. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:12 pm #

    Biden comment:

    http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/09/biden-hits-republicans-on-stem-cell-research/

  66. Comment by Rusty on 9/9 @ 6:13 pm #

    Comment by Carin on 9/9 @ 5:46 pm #

    Now what do Baracky’s ears remind me of ?

    A taxi coming down the street with both doors open?

  67. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:14 pm #

    - Would you. lets say, possibly be referring to a certain “clingy” comment in San Friedbrains.

  68. Comment by Sdferr on 9/9 @ 6:14 pm #

    I think that, if calculated (which is far from certain to me since I think Obama really isn’t all that smart and could easily be that dumb), this lipstick/pig thing runs closer to the Wasilly remark which (I believe on no particular evidence at all) was totally calculated but perfectly deniable.

  69. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 6:16 pm #

    I thought it was a cross and nails, JeffG, not tree and rope, at this point.

    The light most favorable to Obama is a rather dim light, for this gaffe. I still need to find a working link to verify, but I’m told DailyKos has been working on that “lipstick on a pig” line for Palin for at least a couple of Days. Not that the Obama campaign pays any sort of attention to Dkos.

  70. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:19 pm #

    Remember, O! got where he was via quasi-legal Chicago machine politics. That is still behind him. Widespread Dem cheating will be gearing up as O! continues to slip, especially in “battleground” states.

    The machine is already working overtime trying to intimidate Palin off the ticket. Next they’ll turn to intimidating non-O! voters.

  71. Comment by Sdferr on 9/9 @ 6:19 pm #

    What or where does the “polic-eh” pronunciation for policy come from? Is that a Hawaiian speech pattern? Or South side Chicago? Harvard? US Senate? (Ok, now I’m just being stupid.) But really, where does it come from, anyone recognize it as the way “policy” is said where you live?

  72. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 6:20 pm #

    THe hands on the face is a tell, BTW. “Pay attention to my feigned innocence” is the function of that gesture. It’s popular in black church demagoguery and Wright used it, and Obama has before. He was in preachahman mode here, and using all his powers.

  73. Comment by mojo on 9/9 @ 6:20 pm #

    “Relax. Give it time.”
    – Force 10 from Navarone

  74. Comment by Log Cabin on 9/9 @ 6:21 pm #

    Comparing Sarah to a pig and then insinuating that she smells of fish! The wheels on the bus are starting to wobble…

    I am reminded of Dave Chappelle’s skit, When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong!

  75. Comment by JHoward on 9/9 @ 6:22 pm #

    I honestly don’t think O! has the wit to refer to Palin with such a quip. The man is one sorry speaker, one pathetic thinker.

  76. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:23 pm #

    - The entire Left, including Obama and his campaign, plays this little game of publicly distancing themselves, just as he did with Ayers, Pfleger and Wright, and then working directly with all of them on strategy. Its total bullshit, but the press gives them cover, and they really believe the public is a bunch of stupid hicks.

  77. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:23 pm #

    SarahW

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/9/195119/3393/199/592714

    This is the kind of hard hitting that democrats in the past have shied away from and I gotta say, I LOVE BARACK OBAMA. Any day you see the right get irate about Obama’s attacks is a good day. Now get out there people and register some voters. Don’t let them steal this election from us.

    Behold the projection.

  78. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 6:23 pm #

    Sdferr – it comes from church.

  79. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 6:25 pm #

    #75 – perhaps not. Perhaps he really did pick it up from Dkos.

  80. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:26 pm #

    Here’s another
    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/9/152320/6673/495/592434

    I know, of course, that some folks will think we’re sexist when we use this analogy. They’ll say we’re attacking Sarah Palin. But the pig-in-lipstick is definitely NOT Palin. In a very real sense, Sarah Palin is herself the “lipstick” the GOP frauds are cynically applying to their repulsively ugly pig. Democrats can’t let them get away with it. We’ve got to wipe the lipstick off the pig!

    Oh cool…they want to “wipe out” Palin. That is SO much better.

  81. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:29 pm #

    JHoward

    I think O! is so addicted to worship he had to go for the applause line … watch the “pause” as he lets the audience “get” the “lipstick on a pig” line and start applauding.

    This is a gaffe of hubris. He really thinks he can get away with it.

  82. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:30 pm #

    - I so hope the entire crowd of Lefturd fucks get really kicked to the curb this time. 10 or greater percent loss. Embarrassing stomping, not just a loss. Crash and burn. Scorched earth time. The Terminator goes wild.

  83. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 6:30 pm #

    *I’m told DailyKos has been working on that “lipstick on a pig” line for Palin for at least a couple of Days*

    Its so damn creative, it doesn’t surprise me the KOS factory took a couple of days.

    I mean really. That’s the best you can come up with ? And with 30 dnc “operatives” running amock in Alaska. Actually, that should be a reality TV show- “Three Weeks in Alaska- this is the true story- of 4 liberal journalists- picked to go the great white north- to slim the VP candidate…”

    Spoiler : Puck gets kicked out of the igloo by the third episode I’m told.

  84. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 6:31 pm #

    Crap that should have been “slimed”.

  85. Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/9 @ 6:31 pm #

    I think what O!s latest comment really means is that, folks, we’ve had a celebrity in our midst for months, folks: Obama is posting on PW under the name thor!!!

  86. Comment by Sdferr on 9/9 @ 6:32 pm #

    I’ve listened to the clip a number of times now, SW, five iterations I count and hear now that the pronunciation evolves from a normal “policy” in the first to a slightly modified “ehy” in the second to the final “eh” with a hint of “y” in three through five. Dude’s a fake through and through.

  87. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:38 pm #

    Blast from the Past: O!’s “sweetie” comment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkPpThfp7k

  88. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 6:40 pm #

    Matt

    The dems seem to have forgotten that Palin went through TWO bruising political campaigns, taking on her own party and then the Dems. There’s already been “opposition research” on her … a lot of it based on unvetted rumors.

    And she still won.

    Hey Dems, keep underestimating her as some hick, eskimo-lover trailer trash!

  89. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 6:42 pm #

    Should we ever elect a politician who’s first inclination is to call a woman “sweetie”.

    Oh wait, we elected WJ Clinton. So the answer, apparently, is yes ..

    FEMINISM !

  90. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:43 pm #

    - I agree with dre. Goldstein was definately channeling O! and his campaign when he wrote this post.

    - Wouldn’t it be a hoot after all these years if we finally found out that the ‘dillo’s real talent was not dancing at all, but serving as a brass balled antenna for ROVIAN WAVES!

  91. Comment by Matt, Esq. on 9/9 @ 6:45 pm #

    Darleen – great point- and honestly, just as impressive is that she was piercing the old boy network that was Alaska politics – it wasn’t just interparty it was gender vs gender and she won. I have no problem with a woman who can kick a guy’s butt. I’ve faced many of them down in the Courtroom (and lost, occasionally, not very much, sorta =p). Both lawyers and politicians should be winning on the issues, not the color of skin or sex.

  92. Comment by Bob Reed on 9/9 @ 6:55 pm #

    FASCIST WINGNUTZ TWISTING THE HOLY WORDZ OF LORD OBAMUS IF HE WUZ TALKIN ABOUT THAT SHREW BITCH EEEEEVIL CHRISTIANIST STRUMPET NON-IVY LEAGUE RUBE THEN HE WUZ RIGHT BECUASE OF TEH JUDGEMENT !

    SHE IS TEH SAME AS BOOOOOOSH WHO LIED AND PEOPLE DIED !!!ELEVENTY!!!

    TEH CHRISTIANIST AND JOOOOOOOOOS ARE RAAAACISTS WHO ARE NOT VOTIN FOR THE MAN WHO SHOULD BE MADE KING OF AMERICA

  93. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:57 pm #

    - Ummmm…..could someone get a mop and pail…..

  94. Comment by Lost My Cookies on 9/9 @ 6:58 pm #

    I smell Biden. That’s a Biden line.

    O could’ve just rode in a tank, would have been quicker and easier on all of us.

  95. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 6:59 pm #

    - Or taken on a killer rabbit, but then thats been so done already.

  96. Comment by Lost My Cookies on 9/9 @ 7:00 pm #

    I’d say “ridden” but that’s either sexist or racist

  97. Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/9 @ 7:11 pm #

    I predict that before the end of the campaign, O! will be attacked by a rabbit while tripping down the stairs from his jet. At the end of the fall, he’ll miraculously end up driving a tank while wearing a clean-room bunny suit. Complete with ears.

  98. Comment by B Moe on 9/9 @ 7:16 pm #

    Hey Dems, keep underestimating her as some hick, eskimo-lover trailer trash!

    That is what I am thinking, Darleen. They are just letting the moonbats get more and more frenzied, so it will be that much more devasting when she does turn it on. The Dems didn’t learn shit from the convention speech, I am starting to see a pattern here.

  99. Comment by flan on 9/9 @ 7:20 pm #

    For a guy who’s the one we’ve been waiting for, the greatest politician of our time, the messiah, he sure is kind of a bonehead. Undoubtedly there’s some nuance I’m missing.

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  102. Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 9/9 @ 7:39 pm #

    It’s always the nuance. Always. We, as non-lefties, just don’t possess the nuance gene. Of course we have back bones and convictions, so there’s that. Obama’s a schlub. Palin could kick his scrawny ass in every conceivable way. Damn, see that dumbass has me comparing the repub’s vp candidate versus the dems presidential candidate. O! you’re fucking up, duuuuude.

  103. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 7:54 pm #

    Just heard someone lament “he really is a thin-skinned bag of epic stupid.”

    And I’m pretty sure I concur.

  104. Comment by PC on 9/9 @ 8:00 pm #

    okay this post just cracked me up. Have to give my applause. (Who is Billy Jack?) but whatever.

  105. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/9 @ 8:04 pm #

    Who is Billy Jack?

    Not a classics scholar, I take it. :-)

  106. Comment by alppuccino on 9/9 @ 8:04 pm #

    Slightly alongside topic:

    Just got done with a conference and one of the guest speakers was Eugene Robinson. Pretty much a one hour Obama commercial. Couple Freudian moments – “We are too busy producing the news to be biased”. “I’d like to talk about what Obama needs to do to win this campaign.” “…..and then McCain picks Sarah Palin. I mean who is Sarah Palin? We know she killed a moose, but…..” “We don’t know if Sarah Palin is ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. In the debate we’ll find out if she’s sophisticated enough.”

    Terrible speaker, by the way. 4 to 1 “ummm vs. word” ratio. Painful.

  107. Comment by PC on 9/9 @ 8:07 pm #

    “Who is Billy Jack?

    Not a classics scholar, I take it. :-)”

    whoa! he’s like Chuck Norris, then? But maybe meaner? LOL

  108. Comment by alppuccino on 9/9 @ 8:07 pm #

    …very demeaning. You’d really have to put a thick coat of fresh paint on to restore that old Cadillac.

  109. Comment by alppuccino on 9/9 @ 8:08 pm #

    ……I mean you can squirt a bunch of BBQ sauce on a burnt pork chop, but……it’s still gonna be a burnt pork chop.

  110. Comment by easyliving1 on 9/9 @ 8:09 pm #

    Great link Spies.

    John Turturro must have studied BJ in a mucho, mucho way for his role in You Don’t Mess With The Zohan.

  111. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 8:13 pm #

    - Jeebus PC. You mean to say you never heard of the teen kungfu idol of all time.

    - Thats like having to admit ::gasp:: that you’ve never been to Paris!

  112. Comment by alppuccino on 9/9 @ 8:14 pm #

    I guess what I’m trying to say is you can put a leather cap on a nappy fro, but that cap ain’t gonna make the nappiness go away.

    ah geez

  113. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/9 @ 8:16 pm #

    Let’s call a spade a spade, by all means.

  114. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 8:22 pm #

    - This is going to call for the pen-ultimate grand group Uber-denouncement I think. No point in being niggardly about it.

  115. Comment by PC on 9/9 @ 8:32 pm #

    I’m having a problem with the title of this post. I know it’s probably my own lack of grammatical skillz, but when Jeff says “…how it obtains in the current electoral climate” does he mean “…how it pertains to the current electoral climate”? sorry.
    And I HAVE been to Paris, thankyouverymuch. It’s just that I’m a girl and too young to worship at the altar of 70’s kung-fu experts, ok? ;)

  116. Comment by serr8d on 9/9 @ 8:42 pm #

    “Who is Billy Jack?”

    Well, Billy Jack is not Bob Munden, that’s for sure.

  117. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 8:44 pm #

    PC –

    No, Jeff means obtains.

  118. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 8:46 pm #

    - Mkay, but of course that was only the sort of cocktail party cum pop culture cum snob-gotcha sort of amusement you’ll often see running around loose here in the hallowed halls of the dutifully, and universally, nothings sacred PW.

    - The lede refers to he who is the one making a rather typical “good ole boy” toss-off comment to a young fem reporter back during the primaries, and the total silence, post-remark, by the so called institutional “feminists”, underlining their rank hypocrisy. Just to make sure no one missed it he did it on another ocassion also. When/if you become an avid reader of this sort of good natured in your face craziness, it will become obvious you have to read between, under, on top off, and behind the lines, including at times, holding them up to a mirror, else someone might shoot you with their Nug – gnaB!

  119. Comment by baldilocks on 9/9 @ 8:48 pm #

    “Ain’t this some shit?”

    In my head, that line is said in my step-dad’s voice. LOL

  120. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 8:56 pm #

    - BTW PC, purely as an aside, if you’ve been to Paris then you’re rhetorically safe at any cocktail party in America, probably even Alaska*.

    *(O! is not quite sure Alaska is one of the 57 states.)

  121. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 8:58 pm #

    Hey, this is kind of interesting. Not smoking gun, but “Hmmm”-ish. Bob Beckelon Fox a day or so ago. At about 4:55 or so, when explaining a remark made to a fox producer as a reference to Palin’s hockeymom/pitbull/lipstick comment , he cracks that maybe he meant to say lipstick on a pig.

    But, as I’m pretty sure Beckel isn’t privvy to any DNC talking points, this couldn’t be a DNC thing.

  122. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 8:59 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/v/aan8HzEQbko&hl=en&fs=1

    HTML fail. There’s the link to video

  123. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 9:07 pm #

    Who is Billy Jack?

    oh shit, I feel old.

  124. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 9:14 pm #

    - The next three weeks or so is sort of the all time super bowl in physics when scientists on the Swiss/France border will be reproducing the “Big Bang” at the Super collider, replicating conditions that existed only one trillionth of a second after the original Big Bang. Later we got GE electric ranges, but thats another story.

    - If anyone needs me I’ll be in my lab watching as we blow up the universe.

  125. Comment by ThomasD on 9/9 @ 9:16 pm #

    So, by using ‘obtains in’ instead of ‘pertains to’ you are implying that the social construction of gender is not merely an aspect of the electoral climate, but instead is something that exists independently and exerts an active influence over the electoral climate.

    Close?

  126. Comment by easyliving1 on 9/9 @ 9:17 pm #

    Psst.

    Anyone wanna manipulate Jeff G. to responding to your comment?

    Pay $3, now, at the Tip Jar located above to the left.

    Then, comment on Mr. Goldstein’s blog and write something about how he made a grammatical error in his post.

    I’m 8/10 since like, July or something; this is a hot tip.

    $3 to the Tip Jar, located above the left side of the page.

  127. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 9:19 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aan8HzEQbko

    There’s a link that won’t blow up to giant-size.

    Bob Beckel getting lipsticked pigs into the convo between 4:50 and 5:00

  128. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 9:20 pm #

    - I do what I can, but at the moment I’m fresh out of change. Maybe I should ask Obama.

  129. Comment by Jeffersonian on 9/9 @ 9:20 pm #

    Has anyone talked Thor in off the ledge to post yet another comment about how fucked we mossbacks all are come November 4?

  130. Comment by SarahW on 9/9 @ 9:21 pm #

    (video is from a day or so ago, Beckel the DNC hack, on Fox)

  131. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 9:29 pm #

    - Sarah, if what Darleen says is true, that DKos was the ones who came up with the lines, and bragged about it, it makes sense Beckle would know, and with his mouth that he couldn’t contain his glee slipping one past under everyones noses. FOX will probably get up to speed on it in the next few days.

  132. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 9:30 pm #

    - If its true, then plausible deniability will go bye-bye.

  133. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 9:48 pm #

    - BTW, one of the many experiments we’ll be doing is looking for the “higgs” particle, the partical we believe that gives everything mass, and the thing that keeps your ass from falling through the toilet seat.

    - Its also referred to as the “God” particle, because we think, as I said, it gives everything we can relate to substance.

    - Einstein wan’t available for comment.

  134. Comment by Jeff G on 9/9 @ 9:53 pm #

    Good show, Thomas.

  135. Comment by B Moe on 9/9 @ 9:53 pm #

    - Its also referred to as the “God” particle, because we think, as I said, it gives everything we can relate to substance.

    Even thor?

  136. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 10:04 pm #

    - thor is probably made up of “dark matter”, something else we’ll be looking for during the experiments.

    - Think of dark matter as sort of the corpse of normal matter that has lost its ability to interact with anything else in the universe in any meaningful way.

    - Something like thor.

  137. Comment by Ric Locke on 9/9 @ 10:10 pm #

    Thomas (and Jeff), if you have a low taste for middle-aged science fiction, you might look up a novel called A Planet in Arms by Donald Barr. Between them, General Holcott R. McGifford and Professor Smeal do an excellent riff on “obtain” in that sense.

    Regards,
    Ric

  138. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 10:11 pm #

    SarahW

    Yeah, that was pretty slick … BB was being called on his comments “This rottweiller is going to self destruct” then he goes on to say “Well she did, in the convention…. she was a soccer…hockey mom and lipstick on a rottweiller or maybe it was pig ….”

    That went by so fast and the host was already talking so no wonder it didn’t get picked up…WHOA!

  139. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 10:25 pm #

    - Among the other experiments we’ll be doing is testing the “super symmetry” theory. That is the idea that for every particle theres a twin that has a little more “it” than the one we can see in this universe. But its on the other side of a “barrier” that prevents us from seeing it, or interacting with it directly. Think of your image in a mirror. You can see it, and in some sense it “exists”, but you can’t interact with it. Remember thats just an analogy, something like the difference between the Mona lisa and a photograph of the Mona Lisa.

    - The LHC may allow us to open the barrier for a very short priod of time when the beams collide, and maybe we’ll be able to “see” the super particle. I certainly hope so. That puppy cost 8 Billion Washingtons.

    - The fourth thing we’ll be looking for is additional dimensions, since apparently we don’t get into enough trouble in the three, plus time, we’re already familiar with.

    - The results of the four experiments may allow us to finally formulate a “theory of everything”, and fresh unlimited cupcakes will become instantly available.

    - feets will be very happy.

  140. Comment by Ric Locke on 9/9 @ 10:26 pm #

    BBH,

    It is 0530 in Geneva, and somewhere below the placid countryside vast engines are warming up.

    –There is no dark matter. G is a function of l.

    –There is only one Higgs boson. We call it “the Universe”.

    OK?

    Regards,
    Ric

  141. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 10:33 pm #

    - Well Ric, you may very well be right. Thats what we’re about to find out. Either theres a specific reason your “mass” doesn’t fall through the toilet seat, or a lot of money has been effectively burned.

  142. Comment by Ric Locke on 9/9 @ 10:37 pm #

    BBH,

    My name is not Proxmire. Negative results are as valuable as positive ones.

    Regards,
    Ric

  143. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 10:51 pm #

    - Well of course I jest. We will, at the very least, open new frontiers, move science forward in some measurable way. Most probably in being able to frame new and better questions. That is generally the case. We will gather over 21 billion collisions worth of data a month, with a link of 100,000 computers world wide at specific times, to analyze the datum. It will be interesting. A lot of firsts.

  144. Comment by cranky-d on 9/9 @ 10:52 pm #

    Well, if they create a black hole and we all get sucked in, at least we won’t have to hear any more about this election. So there is an upside.

  145. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 11:21 pm #

    - I suppose I should make some quip about “darkie matter” so I can self denounce.

  146. Comment by PCachu on 9/9 @ 11:21 pm #

    And in case you’re still concerned, just check this site for updates and peace of mind:

    http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

  147. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 11:22 pm #

    Black hole?

    Racist.

  148. Comment by Jeff G. on 9/9 @ 11:23 pm #

    Shit. Beaten to the punch on my own site. By a hard scientist.

    I’m humiliated.

  149. Comment by Darleen on 9/9 @ 11:26 pm #

    Oh, for fun and giggles, SEK is making a fool of himself on Patterico’s Obama’s Macaca moment. He’s even pushing the latest Palin smear.

    I think there must be some cottage industry in trying to come up with new smears every 24 hours.

  150. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 11:27 pm #

    - It’s always worth the sacrifice if someone gets hard.

  151. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 11:31 pm #

    - S’ok Darleen. He’ll have lots of time to hone his smearing chops next year during the first year of the McElder/Cuda administration.

  152. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/9 @ 11:39 pm #

    - Speaking of fun and giggles, looking down the road, if jumping the gun just a tad, imagine a Palin/Clinton battle in 2012. Talk about super colliders.

  153. Comment by TaiChiWawa on 9/10 @ 8:28 am #

    “I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.”

    ~ Obama

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