The frenzy in the build up to tomorrow’s coronation goes beyond its unprecedented $160 million plus expense, it runs into some behavior that is either nakedly partisan or borne of the cult of personality surrounding The One.
Wear an anti-Bush shirt in school? The ACLU will be right there to support you, but if you are a student at Mason High School, any speech tomorrow less than glowing about PE Obama will Not.Be.Tolerated
Mason school officials said they are taking a proactive educational approach in advance of next week’s planned Inauguration Day activities.“Inappropriate comments that may make other students, staff or families feel unwelcome or uncomfortable in school or on the bus will not be tolerated,” Superintendent Kevin Bright said in an e-mail sent to parents Monday, Jan. 12.
The district, he said, expects students and staff to show respect for President-elect Obama and the incoming administration, as well as President Bush and the outgoing administration, and recognize that “while the election is a competitive process, our nation’s greatness is displayed when all sides come together for a united country.”
I’m sure they sent the same email four years ago … right?
Obama is certainly inspiring at least one teacher in expelling Huck Finn from the high school English class
[W]ith an African American about to be inaugurated as president, Foley wonders whether ‘Huck Finn’ ought to be sent back down the river. Why not replace it with a more modern, less discomfiting novel documenting the epic journey of discovery?“The time has arrived to update the literature we use in high school classrooms,” Foley wrote in a guest column this month for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Barack Obama is president-elect of the United States, and novels that use the ‘N-word’ repeatedly need to go.”
Eight years ago, what reception would a teacher demanding book-banning because of Bush’s inauguration have received?
And what if you’re a college student that questions why classes you pay for have been cancelled and you publicly point out
Arthur Garson Jr., the executive vice president and provost of [University of Virginia], announced by e-mail that classes will be suspended on Jan. 20, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama. In 2005, while I was an undergraduate at UVa, classes carried on as usual for George Bush’s Inauguration Day. [...]From my experience of four years of college and almost three years of law school at UVa, I do not recall classes ever being suspended for a planned political event. For example, despite student petitions, classes carried on as normal during Election Day last year.
You’ll find yourself compared to someone “complaining” of class being suspended on 9/11, you batsh*t crazy, conservative victimizer you!
And where were these people four or eight years ago? Some of those sentiments are laudable, especially since non-celebs, even ::::gasp:::: heteronormatives and conservatives have been doing, not just pledging, many of the issues mentioned.
Though, eight years ago, if someone made the “pledge” to President Bush one finds at 3:17
I pledge to be of service to Barack [kiss bicep] Obama [kiss bicep]
Or at 3:55
I pledge to be a servant to our president
… is anyone unclear on what the Left would have said?
Yep, I think so, too.
Personally, I don’t want Obama “to fail.” I do not want to see any of his far-left policies ever see the light of day, but I’d be happy if he decided to spend his time in the gym or the surf or stuffing waffles in his mouth in order to avoid making any hard decisions along the lines of his hundreds of “present” votes. Let him be the Paparazzi President, the Tiger Beat Prez, even the Camelot President. However, Americans are a truly remarkable people, when you leave them alone. Let Obama stay disengaged. Please.
Comment by Techie on 1/19 @ 5:25 pm #
Hope AND Change.
Are we being required to knell at the appropriate time tomorrow?
Comment by Techie on 1/19 @ 5:29 pm #
I think those folks got the whole concept of “public servant” backwards.
Comment by Darleen on 1/19 @ 5:37 pm #
PSA
Any troll thread derailing will not be tolerated.
Heh.
Comment by SarahWfreude on 1/19 @ 5:39 pm #
That Tiger beat cover still kills.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/19 @ 5:46 pm #
I don’t have a problem with the warning for the high schoolers.
College classes being suspended is a problem, though.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 1/19 @ 5:59 pm #
Obama is like Gilderoy Lockheart from Harry Potter: famous for being famous, he wrote a few books, has done nothing but claims great competence, people swoon over him - except a few skeptical ones who are treated with veiled contempt for their lack of adoration - and ultimately doesn’t know how to do anything but think about himself and engage in self promotion.
He’s the I-Candidate, not better, but cooler and more expensive.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/19 @ 6:03 pm #
Yes, God forbid that readers ever be “discomfited”, or expected to think about what’s really going on in Huckleberry Finn. Huck, who’s been raised from birth to believe that slavery is not just morally okay, but actually decreed by God himself decides that he’d rather go to Hell than see his friend Jim be sold away from his wife and children.
But nope, that’s not the important part. The important part is that the black characters, in a book set in the South before the Civil War, are called “n_____s” rather than “African Americans” or “Sun People” or whatever the faux-inoffensive term of the moment happens to be.
The book is also laugh-out-loud funny — another mortal sin in the eyes of the congenitally stupid and humorless.
Comment by qdpsteve on 1/19 @ 6:06 pm #
Any troll thread derailing will not be tolerated.
Darleen, thank you.
“Liberal” (i.e., troll) posters’ ideas at quality conservative sites such as PW should be accorded exactly the same amount of honor and respect that conservative ideas are granted at 99.99% of liberal sites… which is none.
Comment by Rick Ballard on 1/19 @ 6:09 pm #
“the congenitally stupid and humorless.”
SBP,
Why provide the complete definition when the word alone will suffice? Is the use of “progressive” prohibited?
Comment by Darleen on 1/19 @ 6:12 pm #
SBP
I find it even worse than the “n” word kerfuffle — it’s the idea that the book is “not relevant” - which is why the teacher also thinks “Of Mice and Men” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” on the OUT list, too. This is exactly opposite of the mission of teaching literature … it is getting the reader to move BEYOND their own provincial frame of reference. It’s to give flesh to the bones of one’s history classes. And it’s supposed to get students to recognize UNIVERSAL themes and ideas.
argh
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/19 @ 6:13 pm #
I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and
how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and called each
other your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, ’stead
of mister; and Jim’s eyes bugged out, and he was interested. He says:
“I didn’ know dey was so many un um. I hain’t hearn ’bout none un um,
skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat’s in a
pack er k’yards. How much do a king git?”
“Get?” I says; “why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want
it; they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them.”
“AIN’ dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?”
“THEY don’t do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around.”
“No; is dat so?”
“Of course it is. They just set around–except, maybe, when there’s a
war; then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or
go hawking–just hawking and sp–Sh!–d’ you hear a noise?”
We skipped out and looked; but it warn’t nothing but the flutter of a
steamboat’s wheel away down, coming around the point; so we come back.
“Yes,” says I, “and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the
parlyment; and if everybody don’t go just so he whacks their heads off.
But mostly they hang round the harem.”
“Roun’ de which?”
“Harem.”
“What’s de harem?”
“The place where he keeps his wives. Don’t you know about the harem?
Solomon had one; he had about a million wives.”
“Why, yes, dat’s so; I–I’d done forgot it. A harem’s a bo’d'n-house, I
reck’n. Mos’ likely dey has rackety times in de nussery. En I reck’n de wives quarrels considable; en dat ‘crease de racket. Yit dey say
Sollermun de wises’ man dat ever live’. I doan’ take no stock in dat.
Bekase why: would a wise man want to live in de mids’ er sich a
blim-blammin’ all de time? No–’deed he wouldn’t. A wise man ‘ud take
en buil’ a biler-factry; en den he could shet DOWN de biler-factry when
he want to res’.”
“Well, but he WAS the wisest man, anyway; because the widow she told me
so, her own self.”
“I doan k’yer what de widder say, he WARN’T no wise man nuther. He had
some er de dad-fetchedes’ ways I ever see. Does you know ’bout dat chile dat he ‘uz gwyne to chop in two?”
“Yes, the widow told me all about it.”
“WELL, den! Warn’ dat de beatenes’ notion in de worl’? You jes’ take en look at it a minute. Dah’s de stump, dah–dat’s one er de women; heah’s you–dat’s de yuther one; I’s Sollermun; en dish yer dollar bill’s de chile. Bofe un you claims it. What does I do? Does I shin aroun’ mongs’ de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill DO b’long to, en han’ it over to de right one, all safe en soun’, de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would? No; I take en whack de bill in TWO, en give half un it to you, en de yuther half to de yuther woman. Dat’s de way Sollermun was gwyne to do wid de chile. Now I want to ast you: what’s de use er dat half a bill?–can’t buy noth’n wid it. En what use is a half a chile? I wouldn’ give a dern for a million un um.”
“But hang it, Jim, you’ve clean missed the point–blame it, you’ve missed it a thousand mile.”
“Who? Me? Go ‘long. Doan’ talk to me ’bout yo’ pints. I reck’n I
knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain’ no sense in sich doin’s as dat.
De ’spute warn’t ’bout a half a chile, de ’spute was ’bout a whole chile; en de man dat think he kin settle a ’spute ’bout a whole chile wid a half a chile doan’ know enough to come in out’n de rain. Doan’ talk to me ’bout Sollermun, Huck, I knows him by de back.”
“But I tell you you don’t get the point.”
“Blame de point! I reck’n I knows what I knows. En mine you, de REAL
pint is down furder–it’s down deeper. It lays in de way Sollermun was
raised. You take a man dat’s got on’y one or two chillen; is dat man
gwyne to be waseful o’ chillen? No, he ain’t; he can’t ‘ford it. HE
know how to value ‘em. But you take a man dat’s got ’bout five million
chillen runnin’ roun’ de house, en it’s diffunt. HE as soon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey’s plenty mo’. A chile er two, mo’ er less, warn’t no consekens to Sollermun, dad fatch him!”
Comment by Cowboy on 1/19 @ 6:14 pm #
I remember overhearing two American lit profs declaim the racism inherent in Huck Finn. My first thought was that there must have been another book by the same title.
Sadly, I was mistaken.
Comment by Cowboy on 1/19 @ 6:17 pm #
“AIN’ dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?â€Â
Racist AND homophobic!!!!!!!!1111!!!
What, are you going for some kind of bigotry trifecta, Twain?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/19 @ 6:21 pm #
He didn’t like the French, either, Cowboy. Compared ‘em unfavorably to the Comanches in one of his essays.
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 1/19 @ 6:23 pm #
Personally, I don’t want Obama “to fail.â€Â
I want him to fail. I want him to fail so embarrassingly that America will never elect another empty suit with a half-page CV, just because the media promises free unicorns (with Retsyn!). I want him to fail at raising taxes, fail at socializing medicine, fail at redistributing money, fail at destroying the coal industry, fail at implementing farcical global warming measures, fail at weakening the military, and fail at probably a thousand other DKos wetdreams that he may have up his sleeve.
Best case scenario is that he turns into Clinton and concentrates on doing nothing except interns for his tenure.
Comment by Pablo on 1/19 @ 6:24 pm #
Anthony Kiedis, who is awfully talented for a smackhead. Anthony, I tell you this because I love you. Shut up and sing.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/19 @ 6:25 pm #
The more I studied about this the
more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down
and ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden
that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and
letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up
there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman’s nigger that
hadn’t ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there’s One that’s
always on the lookout, and ain’t a-going to allow no such miserable
doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks
I was so scared. Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up
somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn’t so
much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, “There was the
Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you’d a done it they’d a
learnt you there that people that acts as I’d been acting about that
nigger goes to everlasting fire.”
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I
couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I
kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It
warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I
knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t
right; it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing
double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was
holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY
I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that
nigger’s owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was
a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie–I found that out.
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what to do.
At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the letter–and then
see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a
feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece
of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below
Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the
reward if you send.
HUCK FINN.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever
felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it
straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking–thinking
how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost
and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our
trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day
and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we
a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I
couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the
other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, ’stead of
calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I
come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up
there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me
honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how
good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling
the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was
the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he’s got
now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was
a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and
I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then
says to myself:
“All right, then, I’ll GO to hell”–and tore it up.
Comment by SarahWfreude on 1/19 @ 6:26 pm #
That reminds me of a peculiar blog I found today. Just scroll down an entry or three.
Pingback by Fuck Obama « docweaselblog on 1/19 @ 6:34 pm #
[...] Fuck Free Speech, when it criticizes a Democrat, that is [...]
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/19 @ 6:34 pm #
Hey, BBR. Haven’t seen you around here in a while.
Comment by 23eagle on 1/19 @ 6:39 pm #
I want him to fail in instituting his and his America-hatin’ friends’ totalitarian socialist state wet dream. I want him to fail at turning our society into the same bunch of violent, depressed, infants that England’s has become.
I mean, what is the success you could hope (sorry) for? That he transforms into someone who thinks the Constitution and Declaration of Independence is just fine and becomes “magically delicious?” He’s on record as having a problem with both of those documents.
I agree that disengaged is the best that we can hope for.
Comment by Darleen on 1/19 @ 6:47 pm #
23eagle
I don’t wish the man personal failure - because I believe if he institutes a policy that causes harm to America that failure is our failure. I want him happily busy elsewheres - as Chris Taylor points out @ #4 - a Barack Lockhart - flourishes, books, appearances and not one bit of time spent in office actually governing.
Sort of like Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (if there is a camera around, he’ll be in front of it)
Comment by parsnip on 1/19 @ 6:57 pm #
The chicken was involved, the pig was committed!
-Old Raygun joke.
I think Obama’s committed.
Comment by chairmann on 1/19 @ 7:26 pm #
If Barack is the new Messiah, I think our enemies will prove to be the new Romans. Just remember that, somewhere in a cave in Baluchistan tomorrow night, there will be a group of deranged psychopaths putting extra scorpions in their hookahs so that they can woop it up just like all of their de facto allies here.
Comment by JHoward on 1/19 @ 7:45 pm #
He’d better be. He just came from the restaurant review circuit and virtually no govt experience to POTUS on the basis of something we either don’t know or nobody dares say. I say epic fail mode looms, snot-drinker.
I hope for our sakes he has a massive ego. I say, I hope for our sakes he at least has a massive ego.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/19 @ 7:55 pm #
My recollection is that in the United States it is customary to pledge one’s loyalty to the Nation, flag and/or the Constitution. Quaint, I suppose.
I suppose I’m not the only one who hasn’t wondered whatever happened to Punky Brewster, yes?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/19 @ 8:00 pm #
She’s on CBS’s “Criminal Minds”.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/19 @ 8:03 pm #
Book banning and speech limiting, in the name of tolerance!, freedom!, diversity!, unity!, post-partisanship!, and unity!…
All these axioms apply as long as, you know, you don’t disagree with the one!…
Unity is an ideal to work toward, as long as it isn’t brought about by outlawing dissent!…
Remember, “dissent is the highest form of patriotism!” and “question authority!”…
All totalitarian societies are one party systems; devoid of dissenting points of view…
You know, the kind the founders wanted to be free from…
Comment by parsnip on 1/19 @ 8:13 pm #
Just because you’re dissenting doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot, Bob.
Comment by guinsPen on 1/19 @ 8:17 pm #
Code Snip.
Comment by cynn on 1/19 @ 8:20 pm #
So “Fuck Hinn” is now on the reading lists.
Comment by serr8d on 1/19 @ 8:21 pm #
I’m afraid that if Obama fails, he’ll drag the country down with him.
But chances of his failing in any endeavor he wants to undertake are lookin’ mighty slim right now. BHO is on an unprecedented roll, picking up political capital like a snowball in an avalanche. Unless there are enough ‘opposition party’ sorts (you can’t call Republicans true opposition party any more, can you?) to sound legitimate concerns, and those concerns actually make it to the public’s attention (we’d need something called ‘fair and balanced media’ for that to happen) then BHO can and will do just about whatever he wants to do.
Without having to start a fire.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/19 @ 8:22 pm #
That may be true parsnip,
But id so, then where’s your apology for the last 8 years..?
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/19 @ 8:24 pm #
I share your fear Serr8d,
I just hope he’s not fiddlin’ around while America burns!
Comment by daleyrocks on 1/19 @ 8:43 pm #
Darleen - I can SO NOT wear that shirt to parents night at high school for youngest. It’ll be trade school for him for sure if I do, NTTAWWT.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/19 @ 8:44 pm #
On the other hand,
Tomorrow a whole new era begins for those of us who didn’t vote for Obama. We get to be the ones cracking the snarky Obama jokes; ridiculing and parodying him every day in every way…
I mean there’s room for a whole new group of comedians to arise; since folks like the SNL writers, Chris Rock, and David Letterman don’t see anything worth making fun of the one! over…
It’ll be a lot of fun, and let’s see how funny the lefties think it is when the shoe is on their foot!
Comment by parsnip on 1/19 @ 8:50 pm #
Obviously you don’t watch much “Lefty” TeeVee, do you Bob?
They’ve been making jokes about Obama for ta least a year.
Actual, you know, funny stuff.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 1/19 @ 9:00 pm #
My dish doesn’t pick up LeftyTV, what channel might that be? Because the late night comedians never laugh at Obama, only (sometimes) his supporters and the disturbingly sycophantic left. Never the man himself.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/19 @ 9:03 pm #
No parsnip, I don’t watch much TV at all, outside of news, some sports, documentaries, and aircraft porn. I prefer reading and other more creative, less passive activities…
But I do read enough on the internet, especially during the last campaign year(s), that I would have caught any of the really good Obama ridicule; there was none, and any of the lame jokes that were made were half-hearted at best…
Hell parsnip, there’s been many articles documenting this over the last year;
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/15/america/15humor.php
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/15/Comics_find_Obama_jokes_elusive/UPI-28271216122970/
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/847457.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/obama-jokes-tv.html
There’s a few pieces of supporting evidence…
Comment by serr8d on 1/19 @ 9:15 pm #
“Obama’s people are trying to portray McCain as cranky, and McCain is trying to portray Obama as arrogant. And when Obama was asked what he thought about being called arrogant, he said he was ‘above having to answer that question.’â€Â
– Jay Leno
Sorry, but is that funny? I’m a stone-face most of the time. That doesn’t even move the lip a millimeter.
Comment by serr8d on 1/19 @ 9:19 pm #
I’m not seeing many of these as funny, either.
“See, I got to admit, as a comedian, I’m gonna miss President Bush. Because Barack Obama is not easy to do jokes about. He doesn’t give you a lot to go on. See, this is why God gave us Joe Biden.” –Jay Leno
Comment by parsnip on 1/19 @ 9:21 pm #
Here you go Bob, have a chuckle or two at Obama’s expense:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=216314&title=barack-obama-path-to-the
Sounds like you need it.
Comment by B Moe on 1/19 @ 9:26 pm #
I thought this was pretty funny
http://tinyurl.com/9v56qb
You like polls, don’t you tuberhead?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 1/19 @ 9:32 pm #
Heh, there’s some hilarious sense of cosmic scale comedy that we’ll henceforth be a part of. While the much lamented soon be former occupant 1600 PA walks away, his tenure approximating something of a Shakespearean tragedy, enter stage left Obama Guildenstern and Joey Rosencranz, a pleasing segue from history into the ephemera of variable pigmentation.
Obama is more the first Zoloft President than anything else. The country is so chocked full of people, shades of people, amoral human forms that move and speak but are more aptly described as walking abortions (cf. parsnip), pumped full of psychotropics or craving the validation of joy. Not the pleasure that comes from a life of hard work and inner validation, but the warm fuzzies that come from exogenous validation.
No, the pathos of the Bush years did not come from the man himself, rather the fusillade of pieces moving to direct themselves against the man regardless of the stakes, the same path that led them to the incredible contradiction of aligning with their polar opposite. The political spectrum seen as a circle is an apt metaphor, in the sense that liberal becomes neocon when one is mugged by reality, the evangelical fervor of the devout Muslim meets the analogous fervor of the evangelical liberal in their blind rage against the infidel.
If we had a class of artists left who could see rather than react, they’d do this phenomena more justice than I could. The sacred has become the profane. The man of no accomplishment plays Lincoln while the man who resembles Lincoln in word and deed will return to his home with the silent admiration of last 66,000,000 million remnants of Western Civilization.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 1/19 @ 9:34 pm #
66 million, not 66,000,000 million.
Comment by B Moe on 1/19 @ 9:43 pm #
Because the late night comedians never laugh at Obama, only (sometimes) his supporters and the disturbingly sycophantic left. Never the man himself.
It is damn sure easy to laugh at his followers.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/to-the-bitter-end-bush-haters-throw-shoes-at-effigy-in-dc/
Comment by Darleen on 1/19 @ 9:58 pm #
What’s interesting about that clip, snippy, (I watched about half way through) is the humor is around The One not really directed to him or about him. It makes fun of his followers, his detractors, but is there anything about him?
The long and short of GW humor was “he’s stupid, people!” And give comedians an accent other than bland American of indeterminate area — ie Texas or Southern or Mid-West — and jokes about the speaker as one relative removed from a primate is the core product.
Comment by Darleen on 1/19 @ 10:06 pm #
Comics lament loss of Bush jokes
Comment by Trimegistus on 1/19 @ 10:08 pm #
The media and the Obamabots will never laugh at him. They have invested too much in him — it would be like a born-again Christian laughing at God.
Forget about laughing at Obama. INSULT him. Everywhere and all the time. Make his supporters feel the same queasiness every time the converstation comes around to politics. Make them nervously anticipate the insane outburst of hate and profanity. And if they defend him, go nuts — no manners, no rules. Just scream random abuse at the liberal, Obama, and any semi-related topic. Make it so unpleasant they’ll agree just to get you to shut up.
See, liberals? We’ve learned.
Comment by thor on 1/19 @ 10:22 pm #
Someone please lend this guy a lingering man-hug and a Kotex.
Left to me I’d simply kick Tom Stoppard’s dick out of his mouth.
Comment by Rick Ballard on 1/19 @ 10:22 pm #
Trimegistus,
Why not just continuously assess the content of his character and wish him all that he deserves, in spades, based upon his accomplishments and the merits of his policies? That should be quite enough.
Comment by serr8d on 1/19 @ 11:59 pm #
in spades
RACIST~~!!!!
Comment by happyfeet on 1/20 @ 12:03 am #
I read this in the cab from the airport. All I wanted to say was that, for real, people what voted for Baracky? An awful lot of them know that there’s a big big element of teh gay in his inaugurationings. This sort of feels like those gaymo Olympics what the Chinamen did. The number of people what are actually being fooled is way way way more than usual out of proportion to the hype. Our media is gay. Terminally gay. What’s a little pikachu to do? Especially that John King one. Flagrant newspoofter if ever I saw.
Comment by datadave on 1/20 @ 12:09 am #
Darling, you just don’t appreciate the optimism, maybe hopeless optimism, that Obama is bringing to millions, especially after the FuckWad Family fucked over America: the Aristocratic Bush Dynasty, just about anything can be better than having the two worst Presidents (after Buchanen, Andrew Johnson, Harding, Coolidge– who was really Hoover’s nemesis, and esp. Reagan and Nixon) leaving the stage: The two worst economic Presidents after Hoover’s adminstration are H, and W. Bush. as the middle class took a tremendous hit during their greedy oligarchic regimes.
Long will we, the people, revile their memory. Hopefully your Govt. job will be given to someone more appreciative of her country and her position. Your incessant writing and negativity is dragging us all down. If you put half the energy into your job maybe LA would be a better place. Take a breathe and think something positive for a change. With public servants like you, no wonder California is suffering so much.
Obama is so classy, he’d look at your shirt and say democracy is wonderful and give a smirk that suggests (”ah it’s another brain dead dittohead”). Keep sucking on Limbaugh’s limp prick, darling. You’ll need enough suction to take the chrome off a trailer hitch ball to keep that boner hard.
Smile, and enjoy the inauguration. At last an honestly won election (unlike 2000 and 2004).
Comment by happyfeet on 1/20 @ 12:15 am #
If we had a class of artists left who could see rather than react, they’d do this phenomena more justice than I could.
I love that. That’s exactly it, really.
Comment by Stephanie on 1/20 @ 12:17 am #
“At last an honestly won election (unlike 2000 and 2004).”
A nub… the only honest elections are when liberals win.
Uttered after the online donation/acorn election… yoiks!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/20 @ 12:20 am #
I see that Slim Shady dude from Mexico is buying another big chunk of the NYT.
He’s going to buttsurf Pinch and the rest of the family before this is over. Wait and see.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 1/20 @ 1:08 am #
O!, the Light Giver! (squirt)
We are screwed! I am totally in agreement with O!’s plan to have the governmnent “create jobs (Public union memebers)”. That is the best way to help
What an incredible intellect and sense of history this man has! And, to top it off, people who know better are kising his butt to keep their jobs - even though they know what a disastewr O!’s policies (or is it “pork-a=cies)will bring upon the heads of the people who actually work to keep this country solvent..
An estimated three to four TRILLION dollars will be spent in the next four years to destroy any and all businesses that actually pay the freight.
And (smurfle), all that money will be given to people who don’t pay taxes, and businesses that suck so bad that they can’t compete.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I guess the joke is on us, and delivered by those who are mesmerized by the “Messiah”.
WOW! I lost 1/3 of my investments last year (thank you Chris “Fatso-Waitrtess Sandwich” Dodd and Barney (”Something Big In My Butt)Frank.
An expensive suit does not make a silk purse from a sow’s butt (Eat your heart out, Larry Craig).
Am I in a bad mood, or is it just my imagination? The best way to help the economy is to make small businesses pay for the deadbears that O! is feeling so bad for?
Enough. If O! does whay he says he is going to do, America is done.
Stick a fork in it, comrades…
Comment by Eric on 1/20 @ 4:29 am #
He’s going to buttsurf Pinch and the rest of the family before this is over. Wait and see.
No he won’t. The Sulzburgers have it set up so they’re pretty much the only shareholders who get to vote. Ol’ Carlos may end up with 50% of the common shares, but he still won’t be able to replace Pinch. The only way I can see this working out for him is if he somehow gets his shares converted to voting shares as part of the deal when he buys them.
Comment by Nine-of-Diamonds on 1/20 @ 7:32 am #
“Darling, you just don’t appreciate the optimism, maybe hopeless optimism, that Obama is bringing to millions…”
Zippy: “I’m going to be happy, Mr. Toad! HAPPY! You hear me?”
Mr. Toad: “Those whom the gods would destroy, pally, they first make happy!”
H/T Bill Griffith…
Comment by Techie on 1/20 @ 7:56 am #
Goodness, it’s already begun. I got up this morning, went over to the bathroom, and promptly began shitting Skittles. And not just any ol’ Skittles, no, we’re talking Mountain Berry and Tropical Fusion Skittles here.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/20 @ 7:57 am #
Ol’ Carlos may end up with 50% of the common shares, but he still won’t be able to replace Pinch.
Yeah, I know about the voting share thing. My money’s still on Carlos, primarily because he’s not an idiot — would you give that kind of money to Pinch Sulzberger? That deal came with some strings attached, I’ll betcha.
Comment by Techie on 1/20 @ 7:58 am #
Why would Carlos Slim, the “robber baron” (as described by none other than the NYTimes) give them no-questions asked money? Non-voting shares of a dying company in a dying industry are worth what, exactly?
Liberal brownie points?
Comment by JHoward on 1/20 @ 8:06 am #
Inadequate screed, daterlessdave. Wrong audience, factless, unoriginal, lacks entertainment value. Bzzzt. I give it a four.
But I will take the opportunity to predict that when the Pubbies sweep congress next election, and when some semblance of fiscal responsibility returns, and probably when we gut this Keynesian-left monetary system like the rotted, stinking mess it is, well, then you can happily resume with that tripe about how a Democrat did it all.
I mean, since Preziduns are so omnipotent and all.
The Austrian School was right, daterless, and that pressure you feel is proof. Wise up.
Comment by Darleen on 1/20 @ 8:43 am #
deludeddave,
you missed the point of the t-shirt … no surprise there … in the context of the post. To spell it out for you, while GW won the second term the “Buck Fush” tshirts along with all sorts of anti-Bush gear was being lapped up by the BDS crowd and no one was allowed to even criticize it. Now there is this sort of religious orgasm over a President who won his election by almost the same percentage and you know that no t-shirt like above will be tolerated on anywhere near the inauguration or in a school or even on the street.
Truman was absolutely reviled when he left office. GW kept us safe for 8 years and in 20 years (or less depending on how Mr. Hopeychangy either is disengaged or is another Jimmy Carter) the 43rd President will be more fairly assessed.
Tomorrow, when the seas haven’t dropped and there is still snow on the ground in DC and the lion hasn’t yet laid down with the lamb, The Obamessiah may lose a bit of the religious bloom.
But I guess that’s why the OFA is being organized … cadres of little Maoist-style youngin’s to educate the 48% that didn’t vote the Correct Way.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 1/20 @ 9:28 am #
Unprecedented. I rather thought that word would come back, with teeth.
All it means is “this has never happened before”, but to some folks it means something like “immoral and possibly illegal”.
I’m fine with using the word like this, but don’t take yourself too seriously. Now, the fact that that much money is being spent on inauguration is fair game, but “unprecedented” is not your best descriptor, unless you’re being ironical.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/20 @ 9:51 am #
“Your incessant writing and negativity is dragging us all down.”
It is not a scintilla of the negativity that the left and their allies in the MSM have inflicted on the nation over the ;ast 6 or 7 years; all in order to score cheap political points…
And now you have the hypocrisy to critize someone else..?
Project much datadave..?
Comment by Techie on 1/20 @ 10:18 am #
Ignore the trolls.
Comment by Dave in SoCal on 1/20 @ 10:34 am #
DD:
“At last a
ndishonestlywonbought election”There, fixed it for you.
Comment by Log Cabin on 1/20 @ 11:02 am #
All the hope and change and good feelings won’t change this fact:
Socialism doesn’t work!
It doesn’t matter if it is a policy put in place by a big-spending GOP congress or by the dems and their bright, shiny, new homeboy.
I’m thinking by about August or September, the average working guy is gonna start wondering why th economy isn’t turning around and why terror attacks are on the upswing. BTW, how is the stock market reacting to all this hope today?
I plan to be there saying “I told you so”.
Comment by DarthRove on 1/20 @ 12:17 pm #
Prez for over an hour, and I STILL DON’T HAVE A CAR THAT RUNS ON UNICORN FARTS!!!!
Color me disappointed.
Comment by mojo on 1/20 @ 1:31 pm #
I want one o’ them t-shirts.
Comment by mojo on 1/20 @ 1:32 pm #
P.s. - just checked the garage. Still no unicorn.
Comment by cranky-d on 1/20 @ 1:46 pm #
I saw a unicorn. He took a dump in my kitchen and then left.