From my email:
Hey Pasty –Long time no email numbnuts. Howse [sic] life treating ya? Happen to catch the election results? Whew…you must be beside yourself with your pseudo-intellectual angst. Dayum…looks like you’ll be spewing your irrational, spite-filled rants from the cheap seats for a bit. Sucks to be you asshole.
Smooch,
TongarooP.S. Be on the lookout for the G Men coming to take you away to the re-education camps! Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaaack!
I hate to admit this, but I find it refreshing that someone with so obvious a set of personal deficiencies can find happiness in the embrace of the Establishment. That he can get such joy out of his hatreds is just a happy bonus!
Now, perhaps if “Tongaroo” would break down and attach a real name to his documents, he’d be able to get himself some financing for a nice big oven and some snazzy uniforms.
But keep the profits under $120K, Tongaroo. Wouldn’t want you disillusioned.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
Comment by Sdferr on 11/10 @ 3:07 pm #
Trying to de-code Tongaroo, is that a South Pacific islander/Ozzie thing?
Comment by FreakyBoy on 11/10 @ 3:10 pm #
The progressive method for a credible “spite-filled rant” accusation is a to frame it within a “spite-filled rant”.
It’s no wonder these people are borderline.
Comment by Ed Flinn on 11/10 @ 3:17 pm #
Tongaroo’s probably a nick for Tongo Rad, damn Space Hippies!
Comment by MarkD on 11/10 @ 3:17 pm #
Tongaroo. Is that like Captain Kangaroo, minus the intellect and charm?
I wonder how he’s going to feel when he finds out that the mandatory voluntary community service is mandatory again, and his check is right behind the ones the campaign volunteers are still waiting on? I was as young once, but never as dumb.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/10 @ 3:21 pm #
The grassroots ‘burbs of Sorosville aren’t going to like me much for the next 4 years.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/10 @ 3:22 pm #
“SOYLENT GREEN”?????
I thought it was “Simple Green”.
Comment by Patrick on 11/10 @ 3:24 pm #
The closest I can come up with is that he spelled it wrong, and meant Dongaroo. Like kangaroo dong. Or maybe he typed another letter wrong and meant kangaroo dung.
Comment by gabriel on 11/10 @ 3:26 pm #
so does anyone want to help me out with http://www.48to52fu.com ?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 3:26 pm #
Simple Green comes in both ready to use and bucket dilutable concentrate formats.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/10 @ 3:27 pm #
I really don’t understand why they care.
Comment by ushie on 11/10 @ 3:27 pm #
Say, didn’t Tongaroo get the memo that the 52 are s’posed to be all lovey-dovey with the 48 so that the P-E won’t get any crit?
Comment by cranky-d on 11/10 @ 3:28 pm #
Apparently many of the 52 percenters are still projecting as if they had 10,000 watt lamps inside their tiny skulls.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/10 @ 3:29 pm #
Probably, but that’s just for show. I’m a special breed of evil, so attacking me with anonymous emails is encouraged.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/10 @ 3:35 pm #
If Harsanyi et.al. were wrong why fuss? It didn’t affect the election outcome, and if it’s not true then it should be a total non-starter now.
Unless it really is true, in which case opposition needs to be defeated before it can gain any strength.
Mediamatters has their marching orders. The war has not ended with the election, merely shifted to another phase. But the winning tactics remain. Browbeating and intimidating the opposition is not going fade away, merely be re-focused as necessary.
The righty pundits who thought they could reach some sort of accommodation now that the left is holding all the reigns of power will learn eventually.
Comment by Lisa on 11/10 @ 3:38 pm #
That was Teh Awesome Email. I wish people would email me and call me a pseudo-intellectual. That would fucking rule. Taking time from your busy schedule of ass-picking, jumping up and down in O-induced glee, and planning what to do with your money now that you don’t have to buy gas and pay your mortgage – to email the Perf, well that is true adoration, man.
And if that weren’t proof enough of the Perf’s star power:
So far there are only three names on the leper list, but the numbers will surely grow, now such temperate souls as Ace are on the case and Protein Wisdom’s Jeff Goldstein has gone “outlaw” (no longer cutting the crusts off his peanut butter sandwiches before devouring them whole). I haven’t listened to wingnut talk radio since the election, but I imagine Mark Levin and others are putting up quite a howl too. I expected fun things to happen once Obama was elected, but I didn’t expect the hinges to fall quite so soon.
Thrilling!!!
Comment by Lisa on 11/10 @ 3:40 pm #
For the record, I know you are tougher. I know you wash that sandwich down with milk that is past the expiration date.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/10 @ 3:40 pm #
OUTLAW!
Comment by Lisa on 11/10 @ 3:41 pm #
Badasssssssssssssssssss.
Comment by mojo on 11/10 @ 3:42 pm #
I’d guess an Aussie living in Tonga.
So, y’know – ignore.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 3:46 pm #
What does Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaaack! mean? I don’t really care. The deal is that this email is a measure of how lost they are without Bush I think. Hate is addictive or something I guess. Baracky will need designated enemies right out of the gate I think. He’ll probably pick something gay like “polluters” or Wal-Mart.
Comment by Adriane on 11/10 @ 3:47 pm #
Well Jeff, if the wife would allow it … hybridizing that special breed of evil could be a money making possibility in these dark and troubled times.
I would denounce myself, but I look so good in a pink feathered pimp hat.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/10 @ 3:53 pm #
Hold it! Think for a minute. Green Corps. Required volunteer jobs and Obama is going to mine his youth vote.
What would you pay to get 3 hours alone with one of these fuzznuts near some cliffs, traffic or large bodies of water?
Accidents happen. And that dude was so stoned.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/10 @ 3:53 pm #
Yep. Which is why I do my best not to indulge in it.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/10 @ 3:56 pm #
Wait a minute…”Feed the tuna fish mayonnaise.”
We could pull a reverse Alinsky or a Lombardi if you will. Put on your flip flops and AGW t-shirt and secure a supervisory job with the youth corps. Work their asses like your trying to get them to win the trash pickup Super Bowl. Smell that? That’s backlash.
Comment by SarahW on 11/10 @ 3:57 pm #
David is into the patient’s hydromorphone again. Go sleep it off, tonga
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 11/10 @ 3:57 pm #
Joke:
Q: What do they call Obama in China?
A: President-ErectComrade.
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 11/10 @ 3:58 pm #
Crappy strikethrough no-preview ARGH. Nevermind.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/10 @ 3:58 pm #
Lisa –
Where’s that quote coming from? I hadn’t read it, and I like to keep my Rolodex updated.
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 11/10 @ 3:59 pm #
Don’t hate me because I’m an
idiotimpatient.Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 11/10 @ 4:00 pm #
So, once again:
Q: What do they call Obama in China?
A:
President-ErectComrade.Comment by mojo on 11/10 @ 4:01 pm #
Feets: I think “Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaaack!” is supposed to be the sound of one knee being slapped.
Kinda zen, when you think about it.
Comment by Lesley on 11/10 @ 4:05 pm #
Tongaroo?
Sounds like someone who’d believe in a cargo cult.
Oh wait…..
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 11/10 @ 4:07 pm #
Funniest thing about that quote? Imagine it’s 2004:
I haven’t
listenedreadto wingnut talk radioDaily Kos/Huffington Post/etc. since the election, but I imagineMark LevinAndrew Sullivan/Markos Blahblah and others are putting up quite a howl too. I expected fun things to happen onceObamaW. was (re) elected, but I didn’t expect the hinges to fall quite so soon.Although to be fair, BDS was pretty much a full-time affliction by then, so the hinges had already fallen, to borrow a (pretty freaking crappy) phrase.
Projection? Illegal use of strawman? Stolen base? There’s so much wrong with that quote I’m embarrassed to even respond to it. I did get to
play with my new toypractice using my favorite HTML tag, though.Comment by Sdferr on 11/10 @ 4:08 pm #
mojo, it sounded more derivative of Miss Piggy to me.
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 4:08 pm #
If you’re an OUTLAW do have to listen to the Outlaws? I mean they were ok band.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/10 @ 4:10 pm #
Jeff G: It’s from your pal James Wolcott. You can hear the snicker through the prose.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/10 @ 4:11 pm #
Linky
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/10 @ 4:14 pm #
You do have to watch Jane Russell though.
Comment by SarahW on 11/10 @ 4:33 pm #
It’s Dr. Kang.
Comment by thorkwrench on 11/10 @ 4:39 pm #
Damn, Soylent! I misspelled that word playing Scrabble last night. That’s cheatn’.
Comment by ushie on 11/10 @ 4:43 pm #
James Wolcott: the imbecile that gives the rest of us pussy-lovers a bad name.
Comment by Celtic Dragon on 11/10 @ 4:45 pm #
If we’re OUTLAW!, can we eat our Soylent Green with Tequila and the lemons we got from life? Cause I think they would go well together…
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 4:52 pm #
god help us I think
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 4:59 pm #
Nothing really unexpected.
Tongaroo expects you to act like he would have if Sen. Obama had lost. And you were filled with bile. And were petty. And had the desire for power over others. And all that other stuff.
Knowing nothing about Tongaroo I can only speculate, but I wonder how much Joy he will feel when he is expected to Work, for Obama will not let you stay in your old ruts, your isolation. No, the work to be done will mean freedom for others.
This will be entertaining.
Comment by SarahW on 11/10 @ 5:00 pm #
It ’s fine for the compost. Cheezit.
Comment by SarahW on 11/10 @ 5:01 pm #
He likes to ride his bike and fall on his head. And float away in bliss.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 11/10 @ 5:01 pm #
Wrong asian stereotype, asshole.
Comment by Hadlowe on 11/10 @ 5:08 pm #
Quite so, feets. I think that there’s alot of earnest chin rubbing to be done once the progressives realize that the guillotine does little to put food on the table of the peasantry.
Comment by kelly on 11/10 @ 5:08 pm #
Such graciousness from our friends on the left. Magnanimity and humility truly pours forth. True egalitarianism and nobility extends.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 5:13 pm #
#37 BJTexas:
Well isn’t that special? Mr. ‘I’m worthy of the Algonquin Round-Table’ Wolcott is after you, Jeff. You should be impressed he would deign to recognize you. *ahem*
Despite the PJ Media thing, you are giving the hits, you giving person, you.
I know, it’s just Vanity Fair, not a real-deal, but you got to take your enemies as they are.
BTW: I think the ‘Heeeeeewack’ thing was an attempt to do a Texasism/cowboy sound. It failed.
Comment by Clouseau on 11/10 @ 5:15 pm #
Wrong asian stereotype, asshole.
Stereotype, eh? I knew there was something
sushifishy going on there….Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 5:29 pm #
Jeff – If one is known by his friends, then one is also known by the character of his enemies. And those enemies that seek you out say much about you.
If you know what I mean.
(IIR my P.G. Wodehouse, the fictional novel ‘Cocktail Time’ was denounced by a bishop(?), which made the publishers happy because being denounced from the pulpit was good for many more thousands of sales.)
Comment by Timstigator on 11/10 @ 5:31 pm #
Think of Soylent Green as AlGore’s ultimate recycling initiative.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 5:33 pm #
A vicar was one thing, a dean another, but a bishop! Oh! Joy! To be denounced by a bishop was the secret dream of every novelist for his work!
(Okay, okay. Wolcott is down in the vicar-leagues, but still! Work at it man, work at it!)
Comment by lee on 11/10 @ 5:55 pm #
Didn’t someone call you “Pasty” before?
I’m wondering if it’s that PIATOR asshat from New Zealand. .
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/10 @ 6:06 pm #
Oh, Wolcott. Probably wrote that while enjoying a nice hot cup o’ tea. And a string of anal beads. My, how they do make his jowels tic and flutter!
Comment by BumperStickerist on 11/10 @ 6:25 pm #
That’s a gen-u-ine James Wolcott quote re: the cutting the crusts.
Plus Jowls includes a link to PW, which should result in a Vanity Fair-a-lanche, or something.
Jeebus, I mean, these smart(ish) VF readers would naturally click on the links, right?
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/10 @ 6:35 pm #
Tongaroo is an anaesthesiologist from Reno name of David Kang, I think. He likes biking and sports and Obama — though he didn’t give any money. Figures.This is what he does when he’s not putting people under, I guess. Sorry, bad info from my source. It happens.
Comment by Carin on 11/10 @ 6:46 pm #
I remember that pasty stuff. Hil-ar-ious.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 6:47 pm #
By the way – a pasty is a dish with a crust folded over containing meat, potatoes, vegetables, etc. It is associated with Cornwall and the U.P. Very filling, very good. Real stick-to-your-ribs sort of food. The food of a hard-working person. Tres proletarian, if you know what I mean.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 6:51 pm #
Here – from Michigan Technological University (Michigan College of Mines) to you.
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/recipes.htm
Comment by meya on 11/10 @ 6:54 pm #
“This is what he does when he’s not putting people under, I guess.”
Some people could use his services.
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/10 @ 6:59 pm #
Boggy is Salacious B. Crumb to Wolly’s Jabba the Hutt.
In fact, so entwined have they become that (with obvious apologies to the people of India) we might as well refer to them as BollyWoggy.
Comment by Carin on 11/10 @ 7:01 pm #
You’re not THAT bad meya.
And, yes, I’m just saying that to be nice.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:03 pm #
You people are still doing politics when I posted on food?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:05 pm #
Food should cut across all lines. It should be the ultimate unifier. That and bacon.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:07 pm #
And shrimp. Bacon wrapped shrimp.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:12 pm #
And if there isn’t bacon wrapped shrimp, then I deputize the Canadians to make it so! And if there is, then the Canadians should concentrate on making more of it! And beer and rye!
And that stuffing my cousins’ make. And the gravy.
But mom can make the tarts – I’m going to get that recipe, and when I do I’ll post it. Promise.
You guys just remind me, okay?
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/10 @ 7:14 pm #
Bacon shrimp is exactly the kind of thing gene splicing is supposed to accomplish.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:14 pm #
If you don’t remind me, I’ll never remember.
Comment by Seth Williams on 11/10 @ 7:15 pm #
What keeps me up at night is this: at some point these people aren’t going to be joking, and they’ll start acting on the hate they’ve been building up since 2000. If that happens, it’ll be the logical result of the sustained dehumanization of one’s foes.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/10 @ 7:17 pm #
A friend of mine attended the Eagles-Giants game last night. Biden was in the owner’s box and they showed him on the jumbo-tron. A mix of boos and cheers ensued. There is a black couple with ny giants jerseys on, loudly and angrily booing and the guy said “Thank God Obama is president. Can’t understand why people would want that cracker in office.” They thought he was McCain.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/10 @ 7:18 pm #
The funny thing about that MediaMatters apologia is that Obama’s promise doesn’t really fit in the context given. Is he really going to staff a few consulates and pump up the Peace Corps with 2.9 million bureaucrats?
Comment by lee on 11/10 @ 7:19 pm #
This is what he does when he’s not putting people under, I guess.
Oh. Just another hero with a mask, I guess.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/10 @ 7:21 pm #
It’s good to know the MSM is still on the hard-hitting stories we all need to know about.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/10 @ 7:22 pm #
To be serious – it may be a bit. Mom had knee replacement surgery in early October. That went fine and she is really walking again, but she had a bout of pneumonia after that (she is susceptible after she had it as a kid in the 1930’s, when she was out of school for a year), and she is going in for a lumpectomy on Wednesday. So it may be a bit before I can get another recipe from her.
But she is a very determined lady, and lets very little get between her and a goal. So I keep my hopes up. (At age 42 she still lectures me, and is right more often than I shall admit.)
Comment by mojo on 11/10 @ 7:28 pm #
I can eat me some shrimpses…
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 7:28 pm #
“They thought he was McCain.”
They all look alike.
Comment by serr8d on 11/10 @ 7:30 pm #
It wouldn’t matter to that particular 98%er, Jack Klompus, if the cracker in that luxury box were McCain or McBiden. We all look alike to him.
Comment by serr8d on 11/10 @ 7:32 pm #
fist jab, dre~!
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 7:32 pm #
I think shrimp all look alike too. Same with bacon.
Comment by serr8d on 11/10 @ 7:34 pm #
I like my bacon sizzlin’ from a Lodge skillet. I’m traditional that way.
Comment by Sticky B on 11/10 @ 7:51 pm #
It coulda been Ernest Fuckin’ Borgnine and that crackahatuh would’ve mistaken him for McCain.
Comment by Bubba Thudd on 11/10 @ 8:44 pm #
OT – Ace O’Spades readers are planning meet-ups across the country this weekend to drink, commiserate and drink. Kindred spirits welcome. See Ace’s site for the meet-up thread.
Comment by McGehee on 11/10 @ 8:47 pm #
Bubba, will there be drinking?
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 8:51 pm #
Happen to catch the election results? Whew…you must be beside yourself with your pseudo-intellectual angst.
Huh? I thought McCain lost.
Comment by bmeuppls on 11/10 @ 9:00 pm #
“Bubba, will there be drinking?”
Until the last one falls off the bar stool.
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 9:03 pm #
I like the bear in Sarah’s office. I hope it bites Greta.
Comment by baxtrice on 11/10 @ 9:07 pm #
So…I was told that if we elected Obama, all this divisiveness would end and the old politics would die. But..but..HOPE! CHANGE! No more McSAME!
..I guess it’s true, a leopard really can’t change his spots. (And yes, the sarcasm was DRIPPING off this comment.) Classy folks, these Obama supporters, classy enough to kick a guy when he’s down.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 9:07 pm #
Your mom sounds very cool. I hope she shakes all that off before the holidays.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 9:17 pm #
Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaack
Trashman’s just got to have a copy of Progressive Fairy Tales around here someplace.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 9:19 pm #
Bill Cosby used to do this thing where he would be all like my name is … Harvey Weeeewak. He thought it was funny.
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 9:22 pm #
Fat Arnold = Skinny Baracky
Comment by happyfeet on 11/10 @ 9:24 pm #
Hims got the slims what it is. Picked it up southside. Puts on a brave face he does.
Comment by dub kitty on 11/10 @ 9:42 pm #
“Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaack” comes from Tom Wolfe.
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 9:53 pm #
fubar #93 Fat Albert
Comment by dre on 11/10 @ 9:57 pm #
Fat Albert= Fat Head Baracky
Comment by PCachu on 11/10 @ 10:02 pm #
Sounds like Mr. Anesthesiologist has been taking his work home with him. IYKWIM. AITYD.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 10:04 pm #
Tom Wolfe? No, I think the credit goes to Cyndi Lauper: She bop, she bop….Heeeeeeeeeeewaaaaaaack! – edited
Comment by Pablo Wayne Gacy on 11/10 @ 10:31 pm #
Heh.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 10:42 pm #
Heh
No worries, mate. No similar history of Bipolar on record.
Comment by mojo on 11/10 @ 10:44 pm #
I have the perfect t shirt:
“If you can read this , please put me back on my bar stool.”
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/10 @ 10:51 pm #
Typical leftard pinhead…
Tolerance!, Respect!, Unity!, Diversity!, Post-Partisan! …
O!
Just like at the Clinton Inaugural…I lived in DC in those days, and made a practice of attending the public Inaugural festivities…As a formation of jets did a fly-by pass over the national mall, I heard to libs standing nearby me squeal with joy; “Those are our planes now, man!”
At that moment, I had no doubt that they were among the protesters at the Desert Storm victory parade one year prior…
I keep telling myself that this current round of gloating will lead, God willing, to a similar chain of events as it did then…
Perhaps Tongaroo will choke on some tofu…
And I think that Heeeeeeeeeewaaaaaack! is similar to Yeeeeeaaaaaaargh!, the scream that ended Howard Dean’s presidential run in 2004…
Best Wishes
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/11 @ 12:07 am #
And I think that Heeeeeeeeeewaaaaaack! is similar to Yeeeeeaaaaaaargh!
Some kind of communication via primal scream or reptilian victory whoop?
Comment by Travis Monitor on 11/11 @ 12:11 am #
48 to 52: Gotta send this note out to the Prop 8 sore losers. Wonder how they will take it? I mean other than coming to my church and assaulting me with a brass candlestick.
Prop 8’s 52-to-48: The American people do NOT want gay marriage and never will. Even in the most gay-friendly state in the union you lost. That’s 30 states and counting that have it in their state constitutions. You can keep agitating and the other side can use your own extremism to bring out votes for social conservative candidates.
It’s a bridge too far. give it up and learn to accept that homosexual couples may deserve freedom to live their life, but dont have the right to redefine the traditional concept and institution of marriage.
And you should accept that its probably a good thing anyway, as the civilization requires a healthy environment for the raising of the next generation and the best environment is a married mom-and-dad family.
Comment by peter jackson on 11/11 @ 12:48 am #
Because we all know that’s what government is for.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/11 @ 8:32 am #
If you mean government as a formalized expression of the will of the people then yes you are correct.
Comment by Lisa on 11/11 @ 8:41 am #
And shrimp. Bacon wrapped shrimp.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Bacon wrapped scallops are heavenly too. Mmmmm.
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 8:45 am #
There’s a place in my airport that does bacon wrapped scallops drizzled with a maple espresso sauce. O. M. F. G.
To die for. Or kill for. Whatever.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/11 @ 8:58 am #
Oh, Pablo is that at Logan or T.F. Green? I’ve had those and they are the very definition of heaven. What’s the name of the place again?
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 9:03 am #
Green. I avoid Logan like the plague. The Providence Oyster Bar is the source of those magical, tasty sea creatures.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 9:14 am #
This fucking tool-elect is leaking what happened behind closed doors between 2 people who supposedly have achieved the highest office. You talk behind closed doors between presidents and then you leak it like you’re a low level grunt?
Not a good human.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 9:19 am #
Zero.Fucking.Class
That’s Shy-town.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 9:19 am #
Souf-side!
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 9:20 am #
It’s OK, alp. He’s the Messiah! Just remember this:
It only seems completely fucking asinine. But ya gotta have faith.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 9:23 am #
It just dovetails with the hand-sanitizer story. W says, “Here use this, it’ll keep you from getting colds.” Great tip from a guy who is truly concerned for this newbie’s health. And Obama hears, “Let me sanitize so I don’t get any negro germs.” Like that nozzle Jim Webb when W asked him about the welfare of his son in the military. These guys are total flakes.
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 9:30 am #
Yeah, the rest of that encounter, which doesn’t get much play, is much more instructive.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 9:33 am #
He knows you as well as he knew his typical white Grammy.
Obama is waiting to be offended. Typical.
Comment by Choward on 11/11 @ 9:54 am #
#117
What can you say, Bush can’t do anything right. He’s so incompetent, he can’t even show kindness properly.
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 10:11 am #
Right, because he’s an evil racist. Who’d think that offering the new guy some sound advice borne of experience would seem kind? What a dunce. Now let’s get on with hopeychangey post partisan politics. Oh, wait.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/11 @ 10:15 am #
Al, do you have a link to a story on this? Or more simply where you’ve seen it?
Comment by Pablo on 11/11 @ 10:39 am #
Stupid spam filter.
Drudge: http://tinyurl.com/5vlxrv
AP: http://tinyurl.com/6zzeo3
IHT: http://tinyurl.com/3fqgwn
Comment by Sdferr on 11/11 @ 10:42 am #
Thanks Pablo.
Comment by geoffb on 11/11 @ 10:48 am #
Translation.
Obama/Biden are going to go for broke to the left. They will attempt to get everything in place before the next (2010) election. Their poll numbers will go down so much that even the polling firms will not be able to cover it up. They worry their base may desert.
Shorter.
Hang in there guys, the road to a socialist utopia will be bumpy.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/11 @ 11:14 am #
I detest the manner in which the IHT article (which Pablo provided a link for above) paints government intervention (bailout) for the auto industry as the only rational economic alternative in the current circumstances.
“Some economists” they say, “…say the demise of even one of the automakers could tip the current recession toward a depression.” Fuckers.
“The Center for Automotive Research…” they quote “…which is based in Michigan and supported by the industry, released on Election Day an economic analysis of the impact of one or all of them failing. If the Big Three were to collapse, it said, that would cost at least three million jobs, counting autoworkers, suppliers and other businesses dependent on the companies, down to the hot-dog vendors and bartenders next door to their plants…” to such scary effect.
Bastards.
Who voices the other side of the issue? Well known economists? No. Free market think tanks? No. Thriving non-Big Three automakers? No.
Pres Bush is made to stand alone, not even in his own words making an argument on economic grounds, but by inference and innuendo. Despicable.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/11 @ 12:13 pm #
Yeah. Thanks Pablo.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/11 @ 1:44 pm #
#90 Haps.
Thanks, I do too. I will see mom and dad at Christmas at my little brother’s home in North Carolina.
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