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Michelle Obama and the Politics of Candor

It’s like a primer on why America sucks.

But, you know: sometimes you have to destroy a village to save it. And who better to pull that off than someone who so despises her country in the first place that she’d happily drive the bulldozers or steer the wrecking balls — provided, of course, she’s well compensated by the government and can, at the end of the day, enjoy a glass of $400 wine in her Rezkofied mansion.

Civic pride, you see.

128 Replies to “Michelle Obama and the Politics of Candor”

  1. Terry Gain says:

    Doesn’t she realize that he’s just pandering.

  2. MC says:

    Looks like a driveling fluff piece mostly. Reminds me why I don’t read the New Yorker any more anyway.*

    It’s a good bit of the problem with being steeped in identity politics. She can never be liberated because the OTHER is always keepin’ her down – despite every measure of success she enjoys. One cannot move if they are forever frozen in the act of being liberated.

  3. happyfeet says:

    “You know,” she said, “in my household, over the last year we have just shifted to organic for this very reason. I mean, I saw just a moment in my nine-year-old’s life — we have a good pediatrician, who is very focussed on childhood obesity, and there was a period where he was, like, ‘Mmm, she’s tipping the scale.’ So we started looking through our cabinets… You know, you’ve got fast food on Saturday, a couple days a week you don’t get home. The leftovers, good, not the third day! … So that whole notion of cooking on Sunday is out… And the notion of trying to think about a lunch every day! … So you grab the Lunchables, right? And the fruit-juice-box thing, and we think — we think — that’s juice. And you start reading the labels and you realize there’s high-fructose corn syrup in everything we’re eating. Every jelly, every juice. Everything that’s in a bottle or a package is like poison in a way that most people don’t even know… Now we’re keeping, like, a bowl of fresh fruit in the house. But you have to go to the fruit stand a couple of times a week to keep that fruit fresh enough that a six-year-old — she’s not gonna eat the pruney grape, you know. At that point it’s, like, ‘Eww!’ She’s not gonna eat the brown banana or the shrivelledy-up things. It’s got to be fresh for them to want it. Who’s got time to go to the fruit stand? Who can afford it, first of all?”

    I know, Michelle. Ok. Breathe. There you go. You sound like really you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown. If you wants I can take you to the grocery store and show you how you do that. I mean, not your fault Chicago won’t let a Wal-Mart in, but they have Trader Joe’s. Seriously. I can help you even if you’re a Democrat and sort of really a lot socialisty cause, bless you’re heart, you’re crying for help. And those poor girls.

  4. cranky-d says:

    Chicago also has a Target, so there is that. However, if she can’t afford to buy fruit at a fruit stand on the money they make, perhaps prices are higher in Chicago than I remember from last November.

  5. happyfeet says:

    Oh. *your* … Really though you don’t sound very stable.

  6. Pablo says:

    Michelle is going to be so proud when she finds out that Debbie Meyer is an American.

  7. happyfeet says:

    Target is kind of a weird place to get food I think. Maybe it’s just me. It just seems kind of like they’re sort of not very serious about that part. I tried to get peanuts there one time but all they had was those roasted ones and it was for a rice salad and I didn’t think those would work.

  8. And the notion of trying to think about a lunch every day! … So you grab the Lunchables, right?

    nope, you have your husband make the same damn thing every day. deal. amateur.

  9. cranky-d says:

    No, I agree, Target is a weird place to get food. Perhaps she would be content with dried fruit, that probably won’t have corn syrup in it.

    I’m just really feeling sad for her now. The changebunnies are apparently afraid to be around her, so she’s feeling tense and unhappy. Embrace teh changebunnies, Michelle!

  10. cynn says:

    Low, cheap blows. Watch your step, pastiacs!

  11. happyfeet says:

    Off topic but Huckabee’s speech is a lot underwhelming. Just cause I said the other day I thought he would really do a great, classy, unitey withdrawal speech. Ok, that would be wrong, cause it’s unremarkable. On the other hand it’s not him laying some kind of claim to any onward Christian soldiers business. Maybe he’ll do better at the convention.

  12. B Moe says:

    When Stevie Wonder, whom she was escorting to the stage at a rally in February, tripped on a riser, sending her tumbling down next to him in front of thousands of people, she exhibited no embarrassment or alarm, turning what could have been a blooper-reel nightmare into a non-event.

    That must be it, just don’t panic or get embarrassed, that’s the ticket. Because I am pretty damn sure we would have heard about it right away if a Republican wife face-planted Stevie Wonder in public.

    BECAUSE OF THE EMBARRASSMENT!
    And the panic.

  13. happyfeet says:

    Oh please, cynn. Put a quarter in her and you get Barbara Ehrenreich channeling a vagina monologue in the voice of Shirley Hemphill.

  14. ThomasD says:

    Me three on the Target/food thing. It’s just plain odd to turn the corner on an aisle and find frozen foods where clothing used to be.

    As for the fresh fruit challenges, since they employ a full time housekeeper maintaining a household supply would seem neither particularly expensive nor excessively challenging. But maybe that’s what drove her out of corporate America; a lack of adequate managerial skills.

  15. Pablo says:

    You want more substantive criticism, cynn? Done.

  16. jdm says:

    happyfeet, there are Target Greatland (or something) stores that have a full supermarkets; just like the big-ass Walmarts…

    Or shouldn’t I have said Walmart?

  17. Ric Locke says:

    You guys are missing the point.

    Do you have a Whole Foods anywhere nearby? If so you ought to go hang out there for a while. Fair trade coffee, organic everything including the end-cap displays, all the nice comprehensive labels to make sure you don’t pick up any of that grotty commercial stuff by mistake, parking lot full of Priuses and Volvos (apologies, I know it’s overweight, but the safety of my kids comes first) and Mercedes SUVs… and it ain’t just grrls, and the incidence of genuine hemp sandals is lower than you might expect. Versace, now.

    They all vote. This sounds parodical to a lot of us, but it isn’t. This is role modeling.

    Regards,
    Ric

  18. happyfeet says:

    Oh. I forgot those. We don’t have the Target Greatland ones. My favorite is Super Wal-Mart, but we don’t have those either cause they’re opposed.

  19. Drumwaster says:

    Low, cheap blows.

    That’s right cynn, quoting someone accurately (including context) = “Swiftboating”, and highlighting the shriller points, just for emphasis = “low, cheap blows”.

    You need to step it up, though. The primaries are almost over, and neither candidate will have enough, so you have to move up to calling people “racist” for pointing out that Michelle Obama makes more money than the average American. (Hell, more than three average Americans combined!)

    “Help, help, I’m bein’ oppressed.”

  20. Jeff G. says:

    Super Targets, they call them around these parts. It’s where I shop.

    For cynn. Did you read, honey? Let me help:

    Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

    It’s gotten worse, she expects me to believe, since LBJ, Nixon, and Carter. While she’s living in a mansion, and threatening to race-bait her way into first ladyhood.

    Plus, America is “mean”. Spilling blood to bring freedom to an area of the world where we’ve been long despised = “mean,” in the land of hopeitude and changyness.

    Fuck this chick. Seriously. How can anyone respect someone who is so remarkably unappreciative of all she has, and of the country that made it possible? She’s John Edwards with a pair of trump cards: black and woman.

  21. I’m chatting up the primary stuff if anyone wants to join!

    http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/

  22. cjd says:

    This was very unfair of you Jeff. It was a $250 bottle of wine for Chrissakes.

  23. ThomasD says:

    I do wish Michelle’s allusion to high fructose corn syrup being somehow poisonous would have received wider play in the, you know, corn belt.

    But it’s hard to strike low blows when your intended target is so freaking shallow.

  24. happyfeet says:

    Oh. Now Huckabee is being stirringly unitey. Nice job. So NPR cuts away.

  25. datadave says:

    Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

    I totally Agree. The Conservative Reign of terror has been 40 years of gradual wage erosion, monstrous debts, loss of industrial capacity to Asia, two incomes equal one pre-Nixon income per family. The Liberal era, New Deal and winning WW2 brought America to Greatness and Conservatives brought us GW Bush and a nation trembling over a few guys with box cutters. And a corporate culture that lies and adds fees for legalized stealing from a nation of debtors.

    She isn’t Betty Crocker that’s for sure. (And buying fresh fruit that isn’t some crap from Chile does take a bit of time.)

  26. Jeff G. says:

    And now a second idiot chimes in. Whatever.

  27. B Moe says:

    My favorite is Super Wal-Mart, but we don’t have those either cause they’re opposed.

    Thank God I live in Georgia.

    How can anyone respect someone who is so remarkably unappreciative of all she has, and of the country that made it possible?

    It is probably pretty easy if you are so fucking dense you think an Ivy league educated Chicago ward boss and his Ivy league corporate lawyer wife are anti-establishment agents of change.

  28. ThomasD says:

    So, with what she makes and he grafts, she can afford to hire a second housekeeper , in this Nation of Shame. Hell she can even name him the Keeper of the Sacred Organic Fair Trade Fruitiness or whatever the hell she wants, its her nickel.

  29. happyfeet says:

    McCain is still working the my friends thing to a just really weird degree. It’s so beyond a drinking game now. It’s almost like he’s speaking smurf.

  30. MC says:

    Dave, you forgot the continuing encroachment of the nanny-state and nearly destroying the black community with entitlements.

    Oh yeah, that’s you guys.

    Nitwit.

  31. Darleen says:

    jeesus h crist (and fuck you DD cuz your grip on reality is about as sincere as Michelle’s)

    Two very high-powered highly paid lawyers, one who is a Senator, in a 1.4 mil mansion (discounted in the funny and highly smellable “land deal” via Ratso Rezko) and she’s talking about the whole country as if it were on its knees scraping seeds out of dirt for sustenance.

    Funny how many “poor” people are buying flatscreen tvs

    I love the HUD fraud cases we’ve busted lately … where people have been getting thousands of dollars a year in fed Section 8 money and their garages contain mercedes and SUVs.

    Divided America? Yeh, parasites and chumps. Takers and creators. Capitalists/entrepenuers and people like Michelle and Barry who sharpen their knives of redistribution.

  32. Darleen says:

    Oh… fresh produce? Michelle is such a loving, devoted mom she can’t take an extra 30 minutes to drop by the local farmers market (most localities have one at least once a week) for inexpensive, luscious fare.

    She tries to market herself as just another PTA/Soccer mom (her UCLA speech which I covered earlier) but she’s as elitist and power-envious as they come.

  33. jdm says:

    The Conservative Reign of terror…

    You know, when I predicted I would vote for McCain because the various trolls would eventually piss me off enough to do it, I was really expecting it would be various. As in in more than one.

    Not just one knucklehead who is clearly the result of an educational system devoted to fostering self-esteem and almost nothing else.

  34. B Moe says:

    monstrous debts…

    So you can buy more of the cool shit now we didn’t even dream of then.

    …loss of industrial capacity to Asia…

    So we don’t have to slave like mindless fucking robots in dirty factories like you were warned about if you didn’t stay in school.

    …two incomes equal one pre-Nixon income per family…

    After taxes.

  35. happyfeet says:

    Obama is getting spanked so far in Ohio. 25% in now.

  36. Darleen says:

    pre-Nixon income?

    Oh, you mean like under Eisenhower?

    Let’s see, my parents bought their first home, 1954, $14,500 on the GI bill. You know what that home was? 1200 square feet of very basic shelter. No a/c, no kitchen appliances, no wall to wall carpeting, no fencing, no landscaping, no sewer (septic tank) no street lights. 4 bedrooms, two baths – bathrooms were basic, no cabinetry. just sink tub or shower, toilet and medicine cabinent.
    They had one car.

    Does any ANY place in the US build homes like that today? Of course not. Because if you’re a developer contemplating building homes on a standard lots, say in Los Angeles, you pay the same fees per lot ($50,000 or more) if you build a basic house for $100,000 or a tricked out one for $500,000.

    Which do you think is going to get built?

  37. B Moe says:

    How bloody is it going to get if Obama and Clinton split tonight?

  38. Darleen says:

    B Moe

    The longer Barry and Hillary! go after each other, hammer and tongs, and brawl in public, the better for McCain.

    Go Hillary!!

  39. datadave says:

    McCain gave a nice speech, although he didn’t write it and his telepromter skills could be a little better. Botox model wife. Apparently Hillary will bring the party down to the deep end. She’s helping McCain so far. Even if she gets the nomination she did a bit of damage for Democrats in general.

    B Moe: Yeah, the Robots aren’t even ours. And the Liberal Academics are the ones developing the labor-less technologies. …”taxes” Yes, Reagan raised payroll taxes enormously, otherwise taxes are lower now.

    d. you’re the classic class envy-ist: “Two very high-powered highly paid lawyers, one who is a Senator, in a 1.4 mil mansion (discounted in the funny and highly smellable “land deal” via Ratso Rezko) and she’s talking about the whole country as if it were on its knees scraping seeds out of dirt for sustenance.”

    She worked hard to get where she is….unlike GW Bush.

  40. Pat says:

    Dude, you’re on a tear today. Glad to see some Jeff G postings

  41. MayBee says:

    My Vons delivers. I can order online. Other grocery stores do, too. It takes very little time, and it’s great because I don’t end up spending extra money on stuff that catches my eye.
    I feel like I should email Michelle Obama and all the women she is faux-commiserating (fauxmiserate?) with and give them this life-changing tip.

  42. MayBee says:

    Botox model wife

    I was just with some teenage boys that thought Cindy McCain was really pretty. Mock her if you like, but she’s got it.

  43. LiveFromFortLivingRoom says:

    Yes, Reagan raised payroll taxes enormously, otherwise taxes are lower now.

    ?????????????????????????????????????

  44. Dewclaw says:

    DataDouche is doing his best Otto (from “A Fish Called Wanda”) imitation.

  45. datadave says:

    Darleen, I am really interested in buying up all those FEMA trailers at 10 cents on the dollar, fumigating them and maybe taking ’em to Mexico for a huge profit. To the Homeland’s credit, they only cost less than 20k each…no wonder they are full of Formaldhyde. You can’t build a decent uninsulated garage for that price. Hey, it’s just shelter. Where’d we get so crazy about vinyl siding, formaldehyde-loaded mat’ls, plastic everything and then prices way beyond what legitimate bankers thought was reasonable: 3 years of income=house.

    Instead Americans are driven by status for little work or corruption as in this case: The biggest, baddest house around here….is paid for by a classic Republican kind of businessman: Biggest, baddest house around On only a 100K a year?

    There was a book called Modest Mansions that I treasured as a design guide for house. The overlarge, energy hog houses are biting their owners now. I feel for the Californians though. Prices are unreal there. I like my Land Trust lands around my modest 400 a month abode. Miles and miles of trails to ski, hike and run and all protected.

  46. guinsPen says:

    Of the Iowa State Fair’s corn dogs and candied apples, obligingly gushed over by hopeful First Ladies every four years: “Stuff on a stick.”

    [Michelle Obama’s] lack of pretense has made her popular with the portion of the electorate, and the media, for whom prim Laura Bush seems out of touch.

    Buggsy Watson is Bobby Hull.

  47. happyfeet says:

    They never give you enough mustard.

  48. Darleen says:

    DD

    I don’t envy Michelle. They didn’t get their mansion honestly and the Obama’s will do their damnedest to make sure no one else will have the opportunity to actually earn a mansion (or single family home) either.

    Greed is lust for the unearned. And money is too clearn and honest for what Michelle lusts for.

  49. Darleen says:

    Americans are driven by status for little work

    Geez, says more about you then it does Americans.

  50. datadave says:

    botox? got it?

    Dewclaw. You go waaaaay back. Otto?

  51. MayBee says:

    Did Obama just write his book and send the manuscript around, or did he find some benefactor publisher that said, “Hey! You should write a book. Here’s an advance!”

  52. datadave says:

    status….sputter, sputter,,, me?. U should see my wardrobe. Jeff’s redneck impersonation used the best I could’ve offered.

  53. Karl says:

    Jeff,

    Glad to see you back at it today. I would remind you that you can direct certain people to this.

  54. MayBee says:

    Because I think a good economic plan Obama might propose is that he’ll make publishing houses available to every American.

  55. wishbone says:

    Dear GOD…

    It’s only March and datadave and cynn already have the vapors.

    Please tell us the one again where protectionism and class warfare works.

    Idiots.

  56. Timstigator says:

    DataDave: Cindy McCain botoxed and Her Thighness isn’t? Hillary’s skin is so tight you could bounce a quarter off it. I’d take Cindy anyday. Thighs…you can have her.

  57. datadave says:

    protectionism and class warfare: sounds like Republicans to me.

    hmm, Ms. Obama might still have to buy her own fruits and veggies, someday w/o secret service escort. Ohio and PA could turn the tide for Ms. Clinton. That’ll keep McCain’s head spinning. Onio’s always big. Texas won’t matter in Nov. as it’s solidly ‘red’.

  58. MC says:

    dd: my modest 400 a month abode.

    Crap, you could have just told us you were on welfare to start with.

  59. B Moe says:

    The longer Barry and Hillary! go after each other, hammer and tongs, and brawl in public, the better for McCain.

    Go Hillary!!

    One of Hillary’s warm up speakers just rattled off all the states they are going to next, then capped it off by hoarsely screaming “and then we are going to Michigan and Florida!” to thunderous applause.

    This is gonna be fun.

  60. Ric Locke says:

    I like my Land Trust lands around my modest 400 a month abode. Miles and miles of trails to ski, hike and run and all protected.

    In other words, you have a vast estate, with the riffraff kept out by armed guards, and it’s all paid for by the taxpayers. No wonder you’re a Democrat. Obama’s a piker.

    Regards,
    Ric

  61. happyfeet says:

    The candor thing really is kind of blase, no? That sort of bull-dykey zsa zsa gabor lady that was married to the last Dem nominee was famously candory too if I remember right. And so is that Elizabeth Edwards. Hillary’s the first prospective Dem nominee in a while what’s not married to teh candor. I’m not sure when the last one would have been. It’s been at least since before Bill Clinton was in office.

  62. McGehee says:

    protectionism and class warfare: sounds like Republicans to me.

    Considering you call yourself datadave despite the evidence of … pretty much everything you say, this delusion of yours doesn’t surprise me.

  63. cranky-d says:

    IIRC, Dukakis’ wife didn’t make too much noise. However, my memory is perhaps suspect, and I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to politics then. 911 and the aftermathc is what got me more interested.

  64. nishizonoshinji says:

    its really good for me that ur back jeffieG.
    for this slice of spacetime at least.
    :)

  65. LiveFromFortLivingRoom says:

    So class warfare is a Republican province and Reagan raised taxes thru the roof. Dude seriously WTF are you smoking?

  66. lee says:

    DAMN! that yuppie chick totally switched meanings for “normal”:

    . Obama seems like an iconoclast precisely because she’s normal (the norm for a candidate’s wife having been defined, in the past, as nonworking, white, and pious about the democratic process).

    At least that’s what is normal for me; and “radical”:

    Obama is also cool in the other sense of the word; her tastes, references, and vocabulary—“freaky,” “24/7,” “got my back,” “American Idol,” Judge Mathis—if not exactly edgy, are recognizable, which, for a political spouse, makes them seem radical.

    Being hip to cultural references is radical?

    Woman be jive talking ‘ol Akmadinnerjacket! She straighten that boy out.

    ‘Cuz “Obama works out like “a gladiator,” a friend has said.

  67. datadave says:

    sugar supports, blockades of Brazilian ethanol, etc. Republican protectionism.

    Idiots! Reagan raised social security taxes higher than any President.

    yeah, Ric. for 400 a month incl heat and electricity I got heaven. You have to shop around. My ex, she was the land trust founder. Libertarians do have a thing about land prices going up due to the freezing up of land to conservation… But Plano, TX is a lot more expensive I am sure and where ever Darleen lives. 400 a month gets a 8 by 18 foot trailer w/o a toilet in California. And I have a pretty good view.

  68. lee says:

    Also, She is often called “regal”

    Whilst Laura Bush…well, you know about her…

  69. *whispers* librarian

  70. B Moe says:

    So dave is a carpenter, married to a woman who actively blocks growth, lives in the middle of a land trust, and blames Bush because he has trouble finding work.

    Dude, I didn’t think it was possible, but I have overestimated your intelligence.

  71. lee says:

    She got up from the rocking chair and walked over to a set of French doors. “It’s Cocky!” the kids shouted as Obama threw open the doors

    Just out of curiosity, anyone wonder why they aren’t referring to her as Mrs./Mz Obama?

  72. datadave says:

    I had to repeat the idoit mantra. I-do-it too.

    PA isn’t going to be good to “O-bambi”. Deer Hunter country. Damn, Hillary might be on a roll (?). My g/f will be happy manana. His speech wasn’t that upbeat.

    g’nite, die Freunde.

  73. psycho... says:

    “freaky,” “24/7,” “got my back,”

    She’s dogwhistling that next year is 1984.

    And my two favorite things are giant leader-heads on walls and that part in the video for “The Only Flame in Town” where the saxophone girl kicks Daryl Hall.

    Got my vote.

  74. Ric Locke says:

    Well, datadave, I don’t live in Plano. This is in large part because my taxes go to subsidize your estate and your indolence. At least “the rich” provide the funds to build factories. You produce nothing but shit — the perfect Democrat.

    Regards,
    Ric

  75. datadave says:

    b moe. I wouldn’t want to do row to row vinyl clad McMansions anyway. More of a cultured clientèle: work’s no problem, benefits are. Conservative America means taxes for war and not much else from my tax dollar. later, chum.

  76. Ric Locke says:

    Sorry, got that wrong. datadave is the canonical Democrat.

    Regards,
    Ric

  77. B Moe says:

    I just noticed that Susan Estritch sounds exactly like Jiminy Glick if you close your eyes.

  78. Darleen says:

    DD

    Americans are driven by status for little work

    Sweetcheeks, the legitimate province of government is Defense (domestic=police, foreign=military) and an arena for people to settle their differences – the judiciary. Other than that, one is supposed to act like an adult and take care of themself.

    But the worst phrase you can lob at a leftcult Dem, one that has ’em sticking fingers in ears and shrieking “la la la la la” is personal responsibility.

  79. B Moe says:

    I wouldn’t want to do row to row vinyl clad McMansions anyway.

    You know what, dave, I don’t give a fuck what you want to do, a grown man does what he has to do to support himself and his family. Children do what they want. Grow the fuck up and quit trying to get other people to support your worthless ass.

    Fucking bum.

  80. daleyrocks says:

    Dukakis’ wife didn’t make too much noise.

    Mostly she just got drunk.

  81. MayBee says:

    I just noticed that Susan Estritch sounds exactly like Jiminy Glick if you close your eyes.

    Ha!

  82. happyfeet says:

    Ohnoes. Obama losted his momentums. NPR said all morning this was a make or break day but oh wait nevermind actually now it’s not like that after all and also this one place in Ohio ran out of ballots so it’s all just very inconclusive. They’re really stunned and caught off guard and decided to cut their coverage short.

    But this is too funny.

    “Stuff like this, if it succeeds in fooling voters, fairly seriously pollutes the information environment by trying to steal the credibility of the news media and use it to present a biased, exagerrated set of facts. Why can’t we rely on people who want to be president to not engage in the kind of creepy behavior that you teach your kids not to do?”

    Ohnoes. Teh information environment gotted polluted by a biased, exaggerated set of facts.

  83. Ric Locke says:

    If datadave preferred an urban environment, he’d be voting for mass transit (paid for by someone else, of course.) That way the riffraff could ride the train, leaving the freeway clear for him to use.

    As it is, of course, the riffraff should live in cheek-by-jowl shacks or chicken-brooder apartment buildings, so that he and his cultured clientéle can have wide-open spaces.

    As a fully paid-up member of the riffraff class, I am not entirely sympathetic to his yearnings.

    Regards,
    Ric

  84. happyfeet says:

    from the comment to the above link thinger…

    I can answer your question William. It’s not the content of the ad that has journalists upset, it’s the style. Many feel that it tries to pass off a political ad as a news story, which ultimately undermines genuine news reporting. They regard it as an attempt to manipulate people.

    Many journalists felt the same way when the Bush administration tried to do this with TV reports a few years ago.

    Tom Regan
    Host, Newsblog

    Sent by Tom Regan | 6:36 PM ET | 03-04-2008

    They really do have absolutely no sense of irony. I swear I always thought they were just kidding.

  85. happyfeet says:

    from the *comments* that should have been

  86. B Moe says:

    They regard it as an attempt to manipulate people.

    That, and there is also the reckless disregard for the trauma suffered by the little Obama-heads when they are suddenly confronted with a apparently legitimate news story critical of their hero. Frankly I am concerned, have we heard from nishi since this ad started airing?

  87. Darleen says:

    the riffraff should live in cheek-by-jowl shacks or chicken-brooder apartment buildings

    In Cali we call the person driving that meme Jerry Brown. (who, it is rumored will try to run for governor again, after ARnold is termlimited out)

  88. lee says:

    Man! That Jerry Brown is like a bad rash.

  89. Darleen says:

    lee

    don’t you know it… Moonbeam almost singlehandedly ruined CA the first time around and he wants a second chance to finish it off

  90. lee says:

    I gazed into the crystal ball of changey hopitude, and have seen a Pres.Hilliary/vcpres.Obama democrat ticket.

    Obama will be deemed the perfect idol movement enhancement to Hilliary’s unlikablity, when she is nominated for president.

    If Obama were to win the presidential nomination, a Vcpres.Hilliary would be far less likely, and not the sure thing in the general election that a Clinton/Obama ticket would be.

    I know, I know…a sure thing?

    I’m feeling gloomy, sorry.

  91. Ric Locke says:

    I lived in California for a while, long ago. As it happens I’ve actually met Jerry Brown, very briefly while touring the Capitol.

    It really isn’t fair to blame him entirely. He had a lot of help from the Board of Stupes, among others.

    Regards,
    Ric

  92. Jeff G. says:

    Not to mention, Linda Ronstadt kept eating all the Oreos.

  93. baldilocks says:

    Not to mention, Linda Ronstadt kept eating all the Oreos.

    Racist.

  94. baldilocks says:

    It just sneaks up on ya, doesn’t it? :-)

  95. daleyrocks says:

    I thought she was eating Bob Kerrey.

  96. happyfeet says:

    SEE??? WHO’S GOT TIME TO GO TO THE FRUIT STAND?!!!

  97. CraigC says:

    The South Carolina mascot’s name is “Cocky?”

  98. ThomasD says:

    USC Gamecocks, hence Cocky.

  99. datadave says:

    Brown was a good governor I had heard, left a balanced budget and helped conservation of energy and had ‘responsibility’ as a mantra. Reagan on the other hand left a big budget deficit, collapsed the education system and caused turmoil in the streets and divided the State into a political schism. (And Reagan was full of hot air and negativity. Just as he was as President, lying about how he beat the Russians when they were trying to make peace and were avoiding a hot war with us. Carter had more to do with ‘defeating’ the big boogie bear, than Deficit Dutch.)

    b moe! you got the wrong guy, I support myself: And I don’t post here on my bosse’s time as I suspect a lot of “you” do:
    “You know what, dave, I don’t give a fuck what you want to do, a grown man does what he has to do to support himself and his family. Children do what they want. Grow the fuck up and quit trying to get other people to support your worthless ass.

    “Fucking bum.”

    One could say the same thing about Jeff or any other person who does what he feels is ‘right’ not just for economic gain.

  100. N. O'Brain says:

    “….a nation trembling over a few guys with box cutters”

    Those “guys with box cutters” killed over 3,000 of your fellow citizens.

    A greater toll than the attack on Pearl Harbor.

    Fucknozzle.

  101. Rusty says:

    One could say the same thing about Jeff or any other person who does what he feels is ‘right’ not just for economic gain.

    Except,dave, they don’t whine endlessly about the consequences of their decisions. Now shut up for awhile. There’s a good lad.

  102. Belvedere jones says:

    “Super Targets, they call them around these parts. It’s where I shop.”

    whew. Teh Targetists were had me off kilter.

    heh

  103. JD says:

    Brown was a good governor

    Ding, ding, ding ! It woke up and jumped right into the stoopid, proudly.

    lying about how he beat the Russians when they were trying to make peace and were avoiding a hot war with us. Carter had more to do with ‘defeating’ the big boogie bear, than Deficit Dutch

    Not content to settle for Grade-A stoopid, he leaps for Commercial Grade Stooopid, and succeeds.

  104. Rob Crawford says:

    Delusional Dave, put down the crack pipe.

    Or at least head back into the alternate reality that spawned you. Here’s a hint — walk around on foggy nights. You might get lucky and find the world you came from.

  105. Darleen says:

    DD

    Moonbeam stopped all new freeway construction and diverted transportation money into the general fund. He wanted to FORCE people to give up their cars no matter what.

    Reagan saved CA from bankruptcy .. which Moonbeam’s dad, Gov Pat Brown, almost drove the state into. Reagan had to fight tooth and nail with our socialist legislature.

    Moonbeam has currently been suing counties across the state in order to micromanage how they plan for housing. His current pet project is the elimination of the single family home.

    But hell, DD you’re like the old Soviets where the future is known its just the past that keeps changing.

  106. N. O'Brain says:

    “Here’s a hint — walk around on foggy nights. You might get lucky and find the world you came from.”

    Yeah, you might find the wormhole leading back to the stupid universe.

  107. mojo says:

    Brown was a good governor

    Pardon me while I go laugh myself sick.

  108. CraigC says:

    ThomasD #98: Er, yes, I know. My Dad’s people, as they say down that way, are from Columbia.

  109. I'm Just Saying says:

    shorter Goldstein: She’s uppity and she respect her place. Only people who live in poverty or struggle to pay bills can comment on their lives. No one else can. Deal, bitch.

    I get it, Jeff, just poignant.

  110. Mikey NTH says:

    IJS – Keeping Ivy League lawyers in their place is what the system does best.

  111. Pablo says:

    shorter Goldstein: She’s uppity and she respect her place. Only people who live in poverty or struggle to pay bills can comment on their lives. No one else can. Deal, bitch.

    No, dumbass. She’s a millionaire complaining about how awful the country in which she became a millionaire is, because it’s so hard to make it in America. She is the perfect rebuttal to her own arguments, embodied.

  112. Pablo says:

    ‘Course, any criticism of either Obama is racist because no one would say anything about them if they weren’t uppity. Is that about right, Chris?

  113. happyfeet says:

    She does not deal very well is the point, Mr. Just Saying. She seems particularly flummoxed by fruit, tormented by the food rotting and shriveling in her crisper. It is poignant, least as she slowly realizes that the fruit is only a metaphor her tormented subconscious is foisting upon her.

  114. JD says:

    Shorter IJS – I am dummerer than a brick.

  115. JD says:

    Fruit! Fruit! It torments me!

  116. JD says:

    Racists

  117. JD says:

    Compliments of Ms. ShinyHappyHopeyChangey

    Everything that’s in a bottle or a package is like poison in a way that most people don’t even know… Now we’re keeping, like, a bowl of fresh fruit in the house. But you have to go to the fruit stand a couple of times a week to keep that fruit fresh enough that a six-year-old — she’s not gonna eat the pruney grape, you know. At that point it’s, like, ‘Eww!’ She’s not gonna eat the brown banana or the shrivelledy-up things. It’s got to be fresh for them to want it. Who’s got time to go to the fruit stand? Who can afford it, first of all?”

  118. datadave says:

    Dennis Kucinich apparently keeps his seat…and his wife

    Freeways! California needs more freeways?

  119. Rob Crawford says:

    In my experience, grapes last longer if you refrigerate them. In fact, the only fruit I don’t refrigerate are bananas and tomatoes.

    And, seriously, IJS, your reading comprehension needs work.

  120. datadave says:

    what’s a “shorter Goldstein”?

    no tractor pictures, please.

  121. Jeff G. says:

    The problem with this chick is that she’s fighting strawmen — and that, yes, she embodies the rebuke to her own phony argument.

    But I suspect we’ll be hearing a lot of the “uppity” stuff when we try to criticize Michelle. A way to suggest we’re really just racists, and so shouldn’t be listened to by good peoples. In fact, that’s the whole trick to Obama’s campaign, isn’t it? The Obamas playing on people’s fear of being thought racist — a fear that has been developed over the past 30 or so years by a steady attempt to control what can and cannot be uttered. Language as a means to silence.

  122. Carin says:

    shorter Goldstein: She’s uppity and she respect her place. Only people who live in poverty or struggle to pay bills can comment on their lives. No one else can. Deal, bitch.

    I get it, Jeff, just poignant.

    Longer I’m Just Saying:

    Sure, she’s full of crap, but her narrative has truthiness that connects her to those beneath her. To whom she condescends, and advises to not reach for a high-paying job, but to work “for the people” UNLIKE WHAT SHE did, because it’s the right thing to do, although she didn’t do it, thankyouverymuch. But, say she hasn’t gotten offered a $300,000 job … I’m sure she’d be a teacher or social worker or something like that. But, people don’t go to Princeton, on LOANS, to be a teacher, right? I’m right.

  123. Percy Dovetonsils says:

    “The Obamas playing on people’s fear of being thought racist — a fear that has been developed over the past 30 or so years by a steady attempt to control what can and cannot be uttered. Language as a means to silence.”

    Aww, f*ck it, all those years of being demonized as a white male have left me beyond caring what these mopes think of me.

    I keep saying this – the Obamas are such a classic cariacture of the non-profit holier-than-thou mindset, I’m having flashbacks.

  124. mojo says:

    Free tip for Michele:

    Memorize this phrase:
    “Shut up and eat it.”

    I learned that one at my mom’s knee. Not everyone grows up in a mansion.

  125. baldilocks says:

    You sure do have that race-baiting lingo down, I’m Just Saying.

    Shorter I’m Just Saying: don’t criticize the Negroes; they’re too childlike to take it.

    I’ve run into Oppressors like you all my life; pretending to be the friend of black people while in reality treating us like the inferior beings you believe we are in your heart of hearts.

    Not buying Michelle’s BS or yours.

  126. no one you know says:

    Comment by baldilocks on 3/5 @ 5:51 pm

    *applauds*

  127. I'm Just Saying says:

    Comment by Pablo on 3/5 @ 10:04 am #
    No, dumbass. She’s a millionaire complaining about how awful the country in which she became a millionaire is, because it’s so hard to make it in America. She is the perfect rebuttal to her own arguments, embodied.

    Or, maybe, “Pablo”, she’s aware, because of her rarefied position in American society (for which she should be damn grateful we gave her, before we take it away), that American median family income has dropped since the 1970’s As she so eloquently said “It takes two incomes now to equal one ‘pre-Nixon’ one.” Maybe that sort of thing is beyond you, since all you care about is right wing dogma and which side of your narrow partisan hackery will win, but it matter to the people who businesses renege on their pensions, it matters to people who pay a ton for a health insurance, and it matters for your freakin’ country, since the American growth of the last 30 years has been subsidized by credit cards and refinanced homes. The credit’s tapped now, Pablo, and you can see what’s about to happen.

    Mrs. Obama speaks to actual people who have noticed their standard of living dropping, and, while you think her success means you should betray her class, I find the diagnosis refreshing.

    Take your silly criticisms elsewhere. How’s about a church, where you can complain that Christ was always lecturing sinners and rich people when he was without sin and perfect? Didn’t he know, you have to be a member of the group (and not even a former member, you gots to be current) to empathize or criticize!

    So, Pablo, narrow your criticism to conservatives

  128. datadave says:

    Good points IJSon. Just to warn you, these folks are a pack when they feel attacked which seems to be frequently and can get ugly, a Borg within their own little world, but with some individuality occasionally appearing. And generally good humored while doing their damnedist to eviscerate anyone who disagrees with them. Left of center types could develop some humor but I think we’re too aware of the environment and it gets us down. And it’s fun to rub their noses in their own illogic. I am still trying to get them to justify why they’d incite more wars and cut taxes at the same time. I am not sure even if they work but they say they do even though you can get very immediate responses from some which is the other attraction here. Some apparently get paid handsomely for past service within the military industrial complex…again for which they want taxes cut but want more services.

    They do seem to criticize McCain a lot though..but can’t resist joining the pack in their intensity of hate for all things socialist, semi-socialist or democratic or “liberal”. Empathy for working people who aren’t allowed to post on blogs during working hours is in short supply here. They seem to get their talking points from a cartoon: day by day by chris muir at http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

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