me: “So. Like, this must be a really exciting time for you — what with Barack Obama a heartbeat away from becoming President of the United States.”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Man, Barack Obama don’t represent me.”
me: “Really? Wow. I mean, you don’t know how happy it makes me to hear you say that — to see somebody of your bona fides bucking the trend of identity politics. Like you, I don’t believe something so superficial as skin color translates magically into shared values or policy ideas. Christ, how many Blacks have been editor of the Harvard Law review, or hobnobbed in Hyde Park salons with former children of white privilege playing as anti-Establishment radicals, am I right? The irony being that were Barack Obama any more ‘establishment’ he’d have to protest himself. You can’t really stick it to The Man when you are The Man, you know? And let’s face it: Barack Obama has never really had a job job a day in his life. What does he know about what it takes to earn a living and make your way in this country? And yet 96% of all blacks are supporting him? That’s being a sheep, brother.”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes:
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Well, I meant Barack Obama don’t represent me because I’m dead and can’t vote no more. But your way sounds good too, I guess.”
Um, have you ever been to Chitown, Chef? You might be a constituent.
Barack Obama don’t represent me neither and I’m not even black.
The ghost of Isaac Hayes is a registered voter in Cook County, Illinois.
Hot Buttered Soul.
Hot, salty chocolate balls!
“And let’s face it: Barack Obama has never really worked a day in his life. What does he know about what it takes to earn a living and make your way in this country? And yet 96% of all blacks are supporting him? That’s being a sheep, brother.”
You don’t embarrass easily, do you?
I think John Shaft is registered in Chicago
EXISTENCE-IST!!
Baracky was smoking a lot of dope when he was a kid about Sarah Palin’s daughter’s age. He liked getting high so it wouldn’t hurt so much that his daddy didn’t want him.
In Chicago, all your (dead) voters belong to us (us, being the Daly/Democrat machine, that is).
Pretty sure that Hayes always wrote in “the physical body which presently contains the reinteriorized soul of L. Ron Hubbard” for every election, actually.
9,
Its sort of a reaction formation, happy; it hurt this admittedly sensitive and intelligent kid badly enough to be rejected by 3 adults that he had to write books and go into public office – acclaim by the masses – or else it would’ve destroyed him.
I applaud his resilience and even his struggle for vindication to a degree, but I don’t want him to work out his issues in the Presidency. ‘Cuz the newsflash would be: They never loved you, O, and they’re dead now. Sorry as Hell they can’t come back and tell you otherwise.
It’s very sad. Hey. Why come Nagin won’t let people back into New Orleans? Is it he just wants to keep the fodder up for NPR? This doesn’t make sense to me cause people will be reluctant to evacuate next time cause this dick won’t let them go back to their homes. Jesus. That’s one place on this earth I just never need to go to again I don’t think.
In our country we have saying: “If a Republican were to be elected mayor of Chicago, the voters would turn over in their graves!”
I never even got to go to NO. I always enjoyed the VISA commercial set there though. Not that it made me want to visit.
Alan, don’t be silly. There are no Rs in Chicago, and the dead can only see the big “D” next to the names anyway. That’s what happens when your eyes start to rot, or so I’ve been told.
Children, what kind of question is that anyway?
“You don’t embarrass easily, do you?”
Does this mean something, or is it just a quick display of snit designed to evoke SHAME, SHAME?
I vote for it being a display of snit. It was a snippet of snit, if you will.
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Whose dat white fly-boy cat whose a hit wif all da ladies…”
Chorus: “MAV..!”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Ya damn right…”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Who is the man, that would slash dat pork fo’ his brother man..?”
Chorus: “MAV..!”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Can you dig it..?”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Who’s the cat that won’t cop out, when the War and Surge are both in doubt…”
Chorus: “MAV..!”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Right On..!”
Ghost of Isacc Hayes: “They say this cat Mav is a bad muvva…”
Chorus: “Shut yo mouth!”
Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “But I’m talkin ’bout Mav..?”
Nor do you, david, especially since you omitted the most important, emphasized (see how I did that?) part of our host’s quote. You see, he’s trying to make the point that your guy has a rather thin resume, seeing as how we’re expected to vote him into the most important job in the world. Let’s look at that, shall we?
-No published academic papers
-Work as a “Community Organizer” that yielded what, exactly?
-A career in the Illinois State Senate where the voted “present” often.
-A couple of years in the U.S. Senate, most of which he’s spent running for President, and during which he has no significant legislative record.
Barack Obama has never held a job for very long, and he’s never excelled at anything. In other words, “Barack Obama has never really had a job job a day in his life.” Care to actually address that point honestly, you fucking hack?
I’m guessing probably not.
HF,
It’s good to know that I am not the only one who hates that Hellhole called New Orleans. What a dirty shithole!
Oh Perf:
If I had a nickel for every time a white guy called me a sheep I would have more mansions than John McCain. If all black people stupidly supported any black person that ran for president, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would have gotten the nod a long time ago – fuck it, Alan Keyes would have been a major contender. Not that that matters in your Neverending Quest To Make This Election About Race.
I thought you would be better than this, but I guess in the end you just can’t help yourself. How pathetically disappointing.
Yawn.
Oh yeah and he went to Harvard and never worked a day in his life, blah blah blah because smart niggers only use their clever little monkey brains to get out of work, the lazy shiftless things…..yeah yeah, that is old and tired too.
Oh, hope you are having a lurvely convention week, folks.
The only person saying anything like that is you. The rest of us would prefer you to stick to what’s actually said, mmmkay?
Lisa,
Care to reconcile that last delightful comment with the full-throated adoration most conservatives feel for Thomas Sowell?
Awwww…Lisa’s disappointed. What a shame.
However, in regards to all black people supporting Jesse or Al, well not all black people are stupid. Are you a racist or soemthing? They know those buffons never had a chance in hell and the fact that they are buffoons. Obama’s politics notwithstanding, he’s a very bright man and not a cartoonish buffoon. A very, very good number of black people are voting for him for two reasons 1) he is black 2) he is a democrat. Maybe not your “people”, but many are anyhow.
Lisa,
With all do respect, this vignette is more about masquerading elitism in the guise of faux populism…
“You can’t really stick it to The Man when you are The Man, you know?â€Â
This line, as well as the one about never having a real job, illustrates Mr. Obama’s membership into the Ivy League club of privilege. It speaks to overriding equality of outcome that results from being a member of the elite liberal intelligentsia; and explains why rich liberal sympathizers kept magically finding “legal work” for him to do, of questionable necessity, in order for him to live the lifestyle a “progressive” thinking fellow like him deserved to.
And, as far as race goes; no one has spoken of it in a pejorative way here. Indeed, you are the only one who has used the “n” word. And it is a matter of fact that an extraordinarily high percentage of black folks voted for him in the primaries and will probably do so in the general. A similar phenomenon among whites would engender a hand wringing hue and cry from the political left that would be of an unprecedented decibel level…
There will be no serious conversation on race in our nation, the kind Obama is fond of speaking of, until liberals succumb to the dreams of Dr. King. And, instead of the divisive identity politics culture of victim-hood, truly work towards a color blind society.
Regards,
Ummm…BO did work in the private sector. I think he spent around 2 years right after law school working on Wall street. Then did the community organizing thing in Chicago, pure speculation but I’d guess he got recruited from the street and the CommOrg thing was for name recognition.
Lisa, it’s so disappointing to read your last comments. I often don’t agree with your positions but you are rarely so offensively off-base. The reality is that the black population and vote is far too small to propel anyone into national office just by itself, thus the two con men you name have no chance. The numbers speak for themselves, black voters vote Democrate reliably enough to be a model for voters for Sadaam Hussein or Castro, which, ironically takes them largely out of the equation and puts them in the 30-40% “lost” vote that will always vote Democrat. Your behavior may be different but the black vote as a bloc is sadly predictable.
Had I been speaking to the ghost of Tony Randall, I would have made many of the same points about Biden.
But then I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to make this election about people I’m scared of, with funny names, and who don’t yet appear on currency.
And that’s just how I roll.
Oh, and incidentally — the sheep effect is a function of blacks and party affiliation. I’ve written on this quite a lot, in fact.
Monkeys, niggers, lazy, etc.? That’s going on inside your head, Lisa, not mine.
Lisa: “If all black people stupidly supported any black person that ran for president, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would have gotten the nod a long time ago…”
Must be the new math you got there, Lisa. How, pray tell, does that work? The overwhelming percentage (as in “virtually all”) African Americans are already on the Democratic plantation, voting as a bloc, so there was no need to give Sharpton or Jackson a nod a long time ago. Hell, they recruited a second black candidate to split the black vote when Sharpton ran, just to dilute the black support the Dems assumed Sharpton would receive, particularly down South.