It appears that Party-down-dude!!, Jon Favreau, last seen groping Hillary not only remained on Team Obama, but crafted [ahem] Obama’s rather pedestrian inaugural speech
Jon Favreau, 27, is, as Obama himself puts it, the president’s mind reader. [...]Obama is an accomplished writer in his own right, [heh] and the process of drafting with his mind reader is collaborative. The inaugural speech has shuttled between them four or five times, following an initial hour-long meeting in which the president-elect spoke about his vision for the address, and Favreau took notes on his computer.
Favreau then went away and spent weeks on research. His team interviewed historians and speech writers, studied periods of crisis, and listened to past inaugural orations. When ready, he took up residence in Starbucks in Washington and wrote the first draft.
So, was it youth, caffeine or lack of learning anything from all the “research” that delivered up this bit
our security emanates from the justness of our cause,
Say what? The good always prevail? Evil is always defeated? As long as we are “just” we will have “security”?
That worked out well for the middleclass, professionals and teachers under Pol Pot, or Jews in Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s victims …
Hey Jon, are you a good guy? So, you don’t lock your front door?
Maybe I got him wrong, though. Maybe that was a supreme-writer Barry line.
Comment by Carin on 1/21 @ 7:53 pm #
I thought Teh One wrote it himself? That’s what they said before hand. I’m crushed.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 7:55 pm #
Fools run the US gov’t now.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 7:59 pm #
Favreau would be up most nights until 3am, honing the next day’s stump speeches in a caffeine haze of espressos and Red Bull energy drinks, taking breaks to play the video game Rock Band. He coined a phrase for this late-night deadline surfing: “crashing”.
Talent on loan from Carrot Top.
Comment by Jonas Sedlar on 1/21 @ 8:00 pm #
As a piece of prose, that speech was absolutely horrible. Just stuffed with cliches and clunky turns of phrase. I was startled it made it through the process and was actually a finished product.
Let’s just get this in here for Googling’s sake: Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau (John Favreau, Faevrau, Favre) is a really, really bad writer.
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 8:05 pm #
Jonas
The most memorable line in the whole thing was swiped from Dorothy Fields
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/21 @ 8:05 pm #
It took “weeks” to research and write that speech?
Man, I am working cheap.
Comment by Jonas Sedlar on 1/21 @ 8:15 pm #
It took “weeks†to research and write that speech?
They apparently went back and combed through previous inauguration speeches and other historic American documents. I suspect it’s the first time anybody in the Obama administration — maybe anybody on the left — has ever devoted thought to history pre-1930 or so.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 8:16 pm #
To the extent the speech attempted to state Pres. Obama’s stance toward our founding documents and the political philosophy they embody it was none too brilliant either. To the extent that there remains a debate about that philosophy it was simply dismissive.
Comment by JHoward on 1/21 @ 8:22 pm #
Hilary Shrugged.
You know, more power.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 8:28 pm #
Can we start a dead pool now that the Clintons have power.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 8:32 pm #
Right makes might?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 8:34 pm #
“Right makes might?”
Left makes incontinence.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 8:41 pm #
Among those who saw or otherwise followed the inauguration on Tuesday, close to half — 46% — say Obama’s speech was “excellent.” That compares with a 25% excellent rating for Bush’s 2005 inauguration speech. Another 35% say Obama’s speech was good, while only 15% consider it “just okay” or worse.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113920/Tuned-Inauguration-Happened.aspx
Looks like Darleen earned her buck…and ,you guys who didn’t like Obama’s speech are in a tiny monority again.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 8:47 pm #
“Looks like Darleen earned her buck…and ,you guys who didn’t like Obama’s speech are in a tiny monority again.”
Can you say the Surge Worked? That’s ok your butt needs the finger more than the wind. Andy retentive loser.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 1/21 @ 8:48 pm #
Caroline Kennedy withdraws bid to be Hillary’s stand in.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/pl_nm/us_usa_politcs_kennedy
Comment by dicentra on 1/21 @ 8:49 pm #
you guys who didn’t like Obama’s speech are in a tiny monority [sic] again.
So is that your argument: that we’re wrong (about our opinion!) because the crowd is always right? Is that scorn for our non-conformity? Is that a “neener-neener, I’m a lemming” taunt?
Wow, ’snips, I’m so humiliated I can hardly show my face in public.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 8:54 pm #
dicentra,
Only 1 percent of Americans thought Obama’s speech was “terrible.”
I mean, come on.
Pariahs is the closest word I can think of to describe you sad sacks.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 8:55 pm #
What percent didn’t bother to listen to it, tuberhead?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 8:56 pm #
“Only 1 percent of Americans thought Obama’s speech was “terrible.—
It is called class. You f**kin’ idiots believe bullsh(t.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 8:57 pm #
Pariah because we didn’t like his speech? Do you understand what you are implying?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 8:57 pm #
Assholes
Pariahsis the closest word I can think of to describe you sad sacks.Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:00 pm #
Oceans didn’t recede today tuber. What’s up with dat?
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 9:02 pm #
People talk to their pet dogs aplenty and at times it seems the dogs understand what their masters are saying. Seems. The dogs can’t talk back to tell us.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 9:08 pm #
Do you understand what you are implying?
Yeah, B Moe, but I think most of us just chalk up your boorish attitude to sour grapes.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:11 pm #
Or sour mash.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:12 pm #
PariahWord History: The word pariah, which can be used for anyone who is a social outcast, independent of social position, recalls a much more rigid social system, which made only certain people pariahs. The caste system of India placed pariahs, also known as Untouchables, very low in society. The word pariah, which we have extended in meaning, came into English from Tamil paá¹›aiyar, the plural of paá¹›aiyan, the caste name, which literally means “(hereditary) drummer” and comes from the word paá¹›ai, the name of a drum used at certain festivals. The word is first recorded in English in 1613. Its use in English and its extension in meaning probably owe much to the long period of British rule in India.
To what should I chalk up your elitist, imperial, and extremely bigoted attitude?
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:13 pm #
let’s see, comparing Obama’s first term inaugural with GW’s 2nd term…
yeah, that works
Plus, I thought proggies got their “news” from Jon Stewart. The veggie of pallor is not going to be happy with this
How shallow are proggs? The same words they are cheering when said by Dem. Chesty McCheesecake with a northeast accent were earlier sneered at because they were said by a Republican with a TX accent.
Maybe veggie of pallor would like to argue with these melanin-enriched hence morally superior beings
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:14 pm #
“Or sour mash.”
Part of the Clinton dead pool.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 9:14 pm #
parsnips is citing polls. One out today says “Gitmo, no clear mandate for Obama to shut it down” which is hilarious given how hyperventilating dems were about polls and Iraq. But since dems live and die by polls, Obama won’t have the stones – instead he issued an order that deprived all those innocents a trial for another 120 days.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:15 pm #
To be a Demorat, to be an idiot. I repeat myself.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 9:16 pm #
B Moe, I am part of the 99% of Americans who thought Obama’s speech was not terrible.
That would make the opposite of an elitist, what?
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:17 pm #
BTW snippy … “Like” or “dislike” a speech isn’t the issue here…it is whether or not the speech holds up under analysis as either informative or inspiring. Save for a few actual good points, mostly it was flat, pedestrian, forgettable and if you actually watched it, failed to move the crowd witnessing on the mall.
and that crowd was HIS crowd!
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 9:17 pm #
Reagan’s inaugural kicked the Ophrah president’s ass.
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:18 pm #
um….. “not terrible” is NOT synonomous with “historically great!”
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:20 pm #
This is the kind of nitpicky shit I expect from y’all. Did you hear he bungled and therefore negated his inauguration oath? Did you know he’s not a citizen? He’s a stealth president, a socialist plant.
Yah, Obama’s a cipher; he’s just pretend. He’s got a long row to hoe. I don’t see him doing it.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 9:21 pm #
Besides, I thought the speech was supposed to be like hearing Lincoln himself talking?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:21 pm #
“Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 9:16 pm #
B Moe, I am part of the 99% of Americans who thought Obama’s speech was not terrible.”
Show some real numbers shit fed tuber.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:21 pm #
Calling people who disagree with you pariahs is what makes you an elitist, dumbass. Try to slow down and actually comprehend the words on your screen.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:22 pm #
But Darleen, I thought the huge crowd was there to boo Booosh, not to listen to a speech.
Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey, goodbye.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 9:23 pm #
“parsnips is citing polls.”
Oh, sweet jeebus on a pogo stick, does that mean we can look forward to another Clinton monarchy?
Will O! not take a shit without consulting the entrails of a goat, like Billy Jeff did?
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:23 pm #
You know who the greatest writer of all times is? Danielle Steele! 99% of people who have read more than three of her books think so.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 9:24 pm #
I pointed to this yesterday. It still rings odd to me.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:24 pm #
“Did you hear he bungled and therefore negated his inauguration oath? ”
Did you hear that the most perfect O! took the Oaf again?
link
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 9:25 pm #
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:22 pm #
That’s nice, hor.
Now go take your meds and have a nice long nap, ‘mkay?
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:25 pm #
cynn
Did you hear he bungled and therefore negated his inauguration oath?
are you filing a lawsuit or something? Certainly no reasonable person is drawing that conclusion from a sheer slipt second of line-stepping.
Save for sockpuppets and Mobys
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:28 pm #
I was trying to be teh semi-funnee, Darleen.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 9:31 pm #
Follow the link if you want numbers, lappie.
Unless John Sidney McCain’s victory has caused you to doubt Gallup’s numbers.
Comment by urthshu on 1/21 @ 9:32 pm #
Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn! Thank you, God!
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:35 pm #
“Unless John Sidney McCain’s victory has caused you to doubt Gallup’s numbers.”
Do you have any principles or do you need someone else’s?
Comment by Barbula on 1/21 @ 9:35 pm #
Americans wouldn’t know a great speech if it walked up and slapped them in the face. And why should they? When was the last speech that made you wake up and and really listen? Passionless pablum, over-designed and stale.
When was the last great speech you’ve heard? Stemwinders and partisan screeds welcome.
I nominate Zell Miller for his 2004 RNC beauty.
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:38 pm #
Can we give this a break? Michelle’s outfit was hideous, and Obama’s speech was boilerplate. So give it a rest. Plus, there were a bunch of creacky religious and poetic figures who appeared for no apparent reason. Typical change, without the burning bush, as it were.
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:38 pm #
veggie
this isn’t Popularity High School, it’s about the text of a speech that Favreau and Barry took “weeks” to craft.
What the fuck happened that not one word of it, save for the cribbed Dorothy Fields’ line, will be remembered? It didn’t inspire, it didn’t motivate … it was snarky and insulting in places even as it parsimonious in alluding to American values. And it came up with the totally juvenile nonsense I have highlighted.
Obama’s charging around naked on a white unicorn promising rainbows and fluffy bunnies isn’t going to last to the midterms.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:41 pm #
“Obama’s charging around naked”
You “tingled” chrissy mathews thigh.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 9:41 pm #
This line is — exasperating, I guess is the right word to describe it.
Were our founders set about childish things creating a government that could work? Were the men who led the nation to civil war over slavery and the reach of Federal power working at childish things? Was it childish of the nation to enter the Great War an ally of the British and French? Was it childishness again when our country sided with the Russians, the British, the free French, the Ozzies, the Chinese et al in the Second World War? Were the men behind desegregation at play with childishness designing their judicial strategy in bringing Brown v Board of Education forward? This list is nowhere near complete. Who are these people that can write “put away childish things” in no context whatsoever with a straight face?
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/21 @ 9:41 pm #
so I wasn’t the only one that started humming that tune yesterday?
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 9:41 pm #
cynn
Michelle’s outfit was hideous
Which one? The gold sofa cover she wore to the swearing in, or the white prom dress covered in toilet paper roses she wore to the inaugural ball?
Comment by urthshu on 1/21 @ 9:44 pm #
Hmm. So if we keep it up, you’ll go away cynn?
Just kidding. But to answer you, no. I’d prefer we don’t let up for the next 4 years.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/21 @ 9:44 pm #
but I do love that bit where “Pop” “dances” with Mabel to try to get her her job back. That’s probably my favorite Fred and Ginger movie.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:45 pm #
Michelle was so hawt that God had to cool down the entire east coast!
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:45 pm #
We are trying to be semi-funny, too, cynn.
Comment by james wilson on 1/21 @ 9:45 pm #
He’s really missing Billy Ayers. I don’t suppose he can risk using him to ghost again.
Trackback by Signaleer on 1/21 @ 9:47 pm #
Meet the New Boss…
Here’s hoping that bureaucracy and large government works for us in preventing too much change, too fast. I’ll be updating this thought all day. UPDATE 1: The new Commander-in-Chief wan ……
Comment by urthshu on 1/21 @ 9:47 pm #
Michelle has a big ass and looks like a Klingon
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/21 @ 9:48 pm #
here it starts about 6:11.
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 9:49 pm #
Darleen,
81% of Americans thought Obama’s speech was excellent or good.
If all you ever do is complain, your opinion is really worth anything, is it?
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:50 pm #
Michelle was so hawt Dick Cheney needed a wheel chair to hide his erection.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:50 pm #
You know the similarity is only going to get stronger, thor.
http://tinyurl.com/5e79lj
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:51 pm #
81% of Americans haven’t seen or heard the damn thing you moron. Most of us couldn’t care less, except to tweak all you sycophant’s shit stained little noses.
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:52 pm #
B-Moe: No, you’re trying to be anything other than else. And that’s where we stand, bro.
Comment by B Moe on 1/21 @ 9:53 pm #
No, you’re trying to be anything other than else.
I have no idea what that means.
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:56 pm #
That makes me weep.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 9:58 pm #
“Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 9:52 pm #
B-Moe: No, you’re trying to be anything other than else.”
Man that doesn’t do the javac compiler.
Comment by urthshu on 1/21 @ 10:00 pm #
parsnip just made teh funneh. I mean, Hell, all the leftards did for 8 years was fkn complain and look where it got them!
The speech was filled with cheap shots, which made it cheap as a whole. Too bad, for reals.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:00 pm #
Michelle was so hawt Sarah Palin’s twat went to fridge for a Popsicle.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:00 pm #
After Maggie’s film interlude, I find myself wondering whether Pres. Obama has enough star-power to be capable of bringing spats back into fashion?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:00 pm #
“Who are these people that can write “put away childish things†in no context whatsoever with a straight face?”
Children with power.
Now it begins to get frightening.
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 10:05 pm #
Oops, I thought it was Monty Python. Epic fail.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:05 pm #
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 9:50 pm #
That’s nice, hor.
Now go take your viagra, and maybe you can get a woody, too.
If you don’t just grow three inches taler.
Comment by Rick Ballard on 1/21 @ 10:06 pm #
urthshu,
A little respect for Klingons, if you don’t mind. And don’t bring up Wookies either.
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 10:08 pm #
What the fuck you mean, Knobrain?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:11 pm #
Comment by cynn on 1/21 @ 10:08 pm #
Um, in relation to what, exactly?
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 10:13 pm #
“Michelle was so hawt Dick Cheney needed a wheel chair to hide his erection.”
Dude chrissy had the hardon for the O!
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 10:15 pm #
“Michelle was so hawt Dick Cheney needed a wheel chair to hide his erection.â€Â
Dude chrisssy make a PUBIC statement about his hardon!
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 10:15 pm #
maggie
thanks for the clip … another thoroughly American institution … the musical, along with unequalled American dancing stars such as Astaire, Rogers, Kelly, Reynolds, O’Connor …
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 10:16 pm #
Allegedly, Michelle Obama wants to promote American clothing designers
yesterday, she failed
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:17 pm #
Lincoln spoke to a “new birth of freedom” intending among other things the freeing of enslaved men. These in their turn however, were for the most part to be left to their own devices in the world, freedom being presumed to be enough.
Obama seems to want to speak to a “new birth of equality” lifting up those relatively left behind. The mass in the middle remain at par, the well-to-do pulled back and the impoverished pulled up. It’s an unreal pretty-dream that’s never worked.
These two slightly antagonistic principles, liberty and equality, remain at odds in us.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:19 pm #
Michelle was so hawt the Bush twins shared a mop handle.
Comment by Darleen on 1/21 @ 10:20 pm #
Sdferr
Liberty is the opposite of the kind of “equality” chattered about in “progressive” circles… they demand “equality” of outcome
which means somewhere someone else is enslaved to ensure that equality
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:21 pm #
Michelle was so hawt they had to call an ambulance for Mary Cheney.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:21 pm #
Michelle was so hawt thor stopped molesting the sheep long enough to watch the parade.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:23 pm #
Michelle was so hawt thor stopped sniffing bicycle seats long enough to watch the parade.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/21 @ 10:24 pm #
Michelle was so hawt thor had to tivo the parade while he went out to buy more KY.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:25 pm #
The other nice thing about Maggie’s clip is that the falling down going on seemed intentional falling down, fake, unnecessary appearance of falling down, resonant with Obama’s prolonged talk of dire crisis where there may not be crisis at all.
Comment by AKA Pablo on 1/21 @ 10:31 pm #
That was a corker, wasn’t it? Palin’s 2008 RNC speech was pretty good too, though not quite as inspired as Zell’s.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:32 pm #
Michelle was so hawt that Alberto Gonzales cooked tortillas on his leg.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 10:34 pm #
“#Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:19 pm #
Michelle was so hawt the Bush twins shared a mop handle.”
Chrissy fuck himself. Thor you like anal action?
Comment by parsnip on 1/21 @ 10:35 pm #
Most of us couldn’t care less
Wrong, B Moe.
80% of Americans saw or heard Obama’s speech yesterday.
Never forget, you and your little band of right wing extremists are a very, very tiny minority.
Don’t imagine for a minute you’ll ever be anything else.
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 10:35 pm #
Thor sucks Jimmy Carter’s little dick
Comment by soroslapdog on 1/21 @ 10:36 pm #
“Don’t imagine for a minute you’ll ever be anything else.”
Thor sucks parsnips
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 10:41 pm #
the time has come to set aside childish things.
Was I the only one who knew he was directing this straight arrow a Firedogswamp and bitch in tow Jane? — paper maiche puppet floats childish? check Lil’ Debbie WAPO comment jihad orders childish? check black facing people childish? check.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:45 pm #
TSK9, are you serious about that?
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 10:47 pm #
Hold up people, I am now pretty sure the childish comment was directed straight at the THOR and PARSNIPS.
Thor and parsnips? Please stop embarrassing your messiah, he wants you not to be childish. He wants you to stop your waste of time on the internets and instead pick up trash and help old people.
Please don’t defy him and comment on blogs. It’s embarrassing him.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:48 pm #
Ok, nevermind.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 10:49 pm #
Michelle was so hawt that in the red states they used skunks for air misters.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 10:50 pm #
Sdferr
::wink::
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 10:53 pm #
Speaking of childishness, I see over at Patterico that JeffG’s nemesis has been arrested again.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 10:53 pm #
Thor
What community service did you do today for your savior? Hand out coats to the homeless? Soup at the kitchen? or really big guy, tell us, recycle your coffee huggie?
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 10:57 pm #
Sdferr
She’s just a return to mature. Silly.
Comment by thor on 1/21 @ 11:01 pm #
Did you masturbate for Jesus today?
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 11:08 pm #
The democrat’s – man of the people party – fairy princess took a powder for family reasons. Either her affair with Pinch was coming to ahead or the fact that some slugged into her head that Gov knew she was stooopider than a hick in Juneau you know???? I mean you know, you know what I mean, I mean you know or Massachusetts just was endowed teh major stoopid cuz booze always trumps reason. Unless you were driving or married to that cuddly old piece of shit.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/21 @ 11:12 pm #
You know who the greatest writer of all times is? Danielle Steele! 99% of people who have read more than three of her books think so.
Argumentum ad populum. Eat shit, ten billion flies can’t be wrong. Miley Cyrus sells way more CDs than Johann Sebastian Bach, so she’s obviously a much better musician.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/21 @ 11:13 pm #
Palin’s 2008 RNC speech was pretty good too
As was Rudy’s at the same venue.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 11:17 pm #
Did you masturbate for Jesus today?
Your talking about that UN guy? Or Babrbara Boxer’s aide who pleaded guilty today? Or John Kerry’s swiftboater? or The mayor in Portland or was it the mayor in Racine? or the Clinton aide? Bernnie? The ACLU head in Pennsyvania? The side of Washington congressional rep?
What? Jesus you mock Thor?
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 11:20 pm #
I just encounter the term FLOTUS for the first time, though I suppose it’s so obvious a usage it should have occurred to me before now. That it didn’t may be related to the fact that I find it, well, wrong, an offense against speech and leave it at that.
Comment by SarahW on 1/21 @ 11:22 pm #
No wonder the speech sounded like it was written on one of those college love-boat semester at sea cruises – paraphrased platitudes with inappropriate word substitution with aid of an i-phone thesaurus app.
Would someone tell Mr. Wunderkind that security does not “emanate” from anything, except maybe sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/21 @ 11:22 pm #
FLOTUS? Well, that white Kleenex-covered dress she was wearing at one point puts me in mind of a parade float.
One made by a bunch of impoverished special needs kids who’d raided the janitor’s closet for several cases of that “40 grit” institutional toilet paper.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/21 @ 11:23 pm #
Thor supports the masturbation and worse to children, he does however think it’s weird to worship jesus.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/21 @ 11:27 pm #
Sad news. Jacques Chirac was mauled by his “clinically depressed” poodle.
Ok. Snark on/Couldn’t have happened to a nicer frog.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/21 @ 11:36 pm #
sadly, we only have ill tempered sea bass.
Comment by SarahW on 1/21 @ 11:46 pm #
In Michelle’s defense, inauguration pants add about ten pounds at least I think.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/21 @ 11:52 pm #
Via Insty: Obamafest beaten by American Idol. Also,the ratings were well below those of Reagan.
I trust Nipply will now be pushing for a constitutional amendment which will make it possible for Simon Cowell or Zombie Reagan to be the next POTUS.
Comment by parsnip on 1/22 @ 1:12 am #
Add in the number of Americans who watched Obama’s spech online and I think you’ll find he even beat St. Ronnie, SBP:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i40152e91c349224fec7abcc6d7a10f8d?imw=Y
American Idol aired 8 hours after Obama spoke so, wha???
Comment by Makewi on 1/22 @ 1:33 am #
Did you masturbate for Jesus today?
I’d hate to be the janitor in that church. Also, stop that.
Comment by Makewi on 1/22 @ 1:34 am #
It was a historic moment, and I even got up early to watch it. As far as speeches go, it was merely average. IMO.
Comment by Pellegri on 1/22 @ 2:10 am #
So the sample size listed for the poll parsnip is referring to?
1012 Americans polled by phone.
Guess that’s everyone in the US.
Comment by B Moe on 1/22 @ 5:53 am #
80% of Americans saw or heard Obama’s speech yesterday.
Yet 8 hours later even more people, over 80%, watched American Idol? Bullshit, tuber. If you gave even 10 seconds of actual thought to that you would know it is ridiculous.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 5:55 am #
Let’s have our own poll, boys and girls.
How many here think that thor is clinically insane?
[raises hand]
1-0
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 5:55 am #
How many here think alfie is insane?
[raises hand]
1-0
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 6:32 am #
How many here think P’brain parrots himself, kicks his dog, curses at his neighbors, swallows handfuls of beta-blockers and clinches his fist until he gets hand-cramps every time I taunt him?
[raises hand]
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Comment by SDN on 1/22 @ 6:32 am #
127 and 128: +1
Comment by nikkolai on 1/22 @ 6:50 am #
alphie and thor are excruciatingly insane. And boring.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 7:13 am #
99.999999 to the pw poll think hor is an unoriginal, uncreative, prosaic and vapid plagiarist.
Oh, they think he’s insne, also.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 7:13 am #
99.999999 respondents…
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 7:14 am #
This just in:
99.999999 of respondents to the pw poll think parsnip is a retarded marmoset.
Developing…..
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 7:15 am #
Here you go, Darleen: http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 7:16 am #
5 million live attendees. No, 3 million. No, 2 million. No, maybe 1 million. Maybe.
Highest ratings ever. Well, no… Reagan had higher ratings.
Teleprompter Jesusfest beaten by friggin’ American Idol in the Nielsens.
I’m sure Nipply, Whore, and Semen are spinning hard, but I won’t bother to check.
The fact remains that, even with all the fraud, Plastic Lenin got less than 53% of the vote. If the KosKiddieKoolaidKult wants to pretend that’s some kind of overwhelming mandate, I wish them well. They better hope he doesn’t piss off more than 4% of the public between now and 2010.
Comment by meya on 1/22 @ 7:22 am #
‘That worked out well for the middleclass, professionals and teachers under Pol Pot, or Jews in Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s victims …’
C’mmon guys. If y’all have to hunt this hard for something to hang your debbie downer hats on, maybe you really like the guy?
“Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions”
Comment by TheGeezer on 1/22 @ 7:39 am #
No one pays attention to these speeches anyway after a few days. Oh, the fellating historian or two will sonorously caonmize a phrase or two, perhaps, but the rest goes down the memory hole.
The real tell? The stock market. Biggest decline in over one hundred years post-inaugurally. It hates the unknown and really hates what it does know about this government (lefty, will be bigger, already owns too much, will be humongously inefficient, more spendthrift than the last one).
Heh.
If Obama cannot enkindle some trust in the hearts of the fund managers holding the money of millions of individuals, the market will bury him.
Comment by meya on 1/22 @ 7:43 am #
‘The real tell? The stock market. Biggest decline in over one hundred years post-inaugurally. It hates the unknown and really hates what it does know about this government’
Why would the market wait till the inauguration to decline in response to this government? was the inauguration an unexpected event to them?
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 7:51 am #
Really? See, because as such an astute observer of the market I figured you, Geezer, would have known that in innagauration eve the Royal Bank of Scotland unexpectedly revealed that they saw $40-billion more in losses in 2009, which sent the overnight markets into a tailspin, which lead to a further sell-off in New York trading of banks and financials stock, which are big components of the indexes.
Heh.
Moron.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 7:54 am #
I love clueless rethuglidum’s blind faith in the one thing they know the least about – Wall Street.
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 8:08 am #
I love thor’s clueless blind faith in the one thing it knows least about – that it cannot truly think.
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 8:12 am #
In other words, market declines, thor-boi, are predicated on the inevitable collapse of trust in the debt-ridden fiat dollar — speaking of the Bank of England, the pound sterling was also once the global standard. Know whay it isn’t anymore?
Electing a Socialist to straighten free-market things out (as you opine) is to poison the dying. What we’re living is the epic fail of what amounts to Keynesian money.
Where you able to generate anything in the way of perspective you’d know that. Yeah: Ron Paul was right.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 8:21 am #
You are aware that it was Bush and the Republicans who nationalized our banks, are you not? Handing out tax-payer money with no control in return, right?
It behooves me to imagine Obama can top the Socialist Bushian exercise!
I think this is one of those times where your need to work your label maker software and come up with some labels, JHo.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 8:22 am #
some new labels
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 8:27 am #
Nice try, thorboi. Show me where the Repulicans nationalized “our” banks.
As to the more pressing matter of the cocktail of bad money and socialism, kindly consider reality itself, if that’s possible:
That doesn’t get into fiat monetary policy, Market Jeenious, but perhaps you can yet grasp at least some portion.
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 8:28 am #
attrib: The late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931 to 2005) Memphis TN
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 8:38 am #
Who is the largest shareholder in America’s largest bank?
Do you read the news, JHo? On Bushes watch, no vote from the Senate or House, smoky backroom deal, Billions!
Bank of America, Citi, figure it out.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 8:41 am #
Lazy rich fucks who don’t work telling poor folks to get to work.
That’s rich, JHo.
Comment by Darleen on 1/22 @ 8:43 am #
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them,
Since half the people already don’t pay a thing in federal income tax but expect a “tax rebate” from The One (plus “free” health care, “affordable” mortgages, and “good” jobs) we have arrived.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 8:48 am #
“Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictionsâ€Â
And also missiles and tanks.
‘Cause leftist dictators like Stalin and Hitler were SURE to be stopped by alliances and convictions.
Plus overwhelming force.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 8:51 am #
#Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 8:41 am #
That’s nice, hor.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/22 @ 9:02 am #
“Michelle was so hawt Sarah Palin’s twat went to fridge for a Popsicle.”
thor,
Beauty has always been in the eye of the beholder, but I’m soory, there is just no universe where Palin would take a back seat to Michelle Obama in physical terms…
And I’m sure, had she not been so vilified in the press and was still in relative anonymity, that 95 out of 100 rappers would agree with me…
And you have to admit that it’s pretty funny that the gold frock and coat, which was infinately more flattering to her physique than the white dress she wore to the various balls and fetes, looked disturbingly like the curtains in the oval office…
Being the punani hound you are, politics and accents aside, you have to see my point…
Best Wishes
Comment by JD on 1/22 @ 9:06 am #
There is a 70’s couch out there somewhere looking for its slipcover. M’chelle has some ’splainin to do.
Comment by thor on 1/22 @ 9:15 am #
Michelle was so hawt I needed oven mitts just to handle my remote.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 10:36 am #
Is that what you call it.
Strange.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 10:37 am #
Although I guess “remote” is better than “pee-pee”.
Comment by JHoward on 1/22 @ 10:52 am #
Who are the indentured servants for America’s $70,000,000,000,000 in debt and unpaid entitlements, idiot? Which Congress touted nonstop bailouts and stimulus plans, jeenius? Which Botoxed left coast House-speaking gay-area urban Debtocrat did that idiot Paulson take a knee before, paper-hanger, begging for his check-writin’ pencil back? Hint: She’s also not a guy, if that narrows it down enuf, brainiac.
Which Administration just won friggin’ office (for cast-offs, liars, and criminals from the previously Most Corrupt Administration in Historah™, not so incidentally) on the entire basis of free gas and spending ourselves rich all over again, aerosol-sniffer?
Why don’t you wake up, chronically unperspectived one, before I blow out your lightly-tinted Lennon specs with a full frontal assault from the Jeffersonian Monumental Truths of Nature, you aimless snack food.
Comment by Timothy A. Bear on 1/22 @ 12:06 pm #
“Obama’s charging around nakedâ€Â
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21768058/saturday_s_halftime_report.htm