Is it just me, or is that like the perfect opening line for the movie version of Liberal Fascism?
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Hurl-worthy line. Honestly.
what do you have against perfection, Carin?
oh, and I just realized I get a “free” lunch today! Obama’s magic is already working!
It’s frightening, when you realize that our only hope is the incompetence of those in power.
AAaaaaand here we go already … how f-cked are we?
Quite.
Or else.
just you
“We have the technology…”
roe-zzz-bud
The gf said his speech included calls for self-sacrifice. (I refused to watch it, told her that if she was going to watch it, I’d go in the other room and watch one of the Law&Orders.)
Whenever there’s someone calling for sacrifice, there’s someone waiting to receive those sacrifices.
Man! This is gonna be great! I’ve never been part of the hip counter-culture.
What do you mean Sashal at #6 ? I mean, I should be getting a tax cut, right? And my husband’s small business is going to pay less in taxes too, right?
>>Man! This is gonna be great! I’ve never been part of the hip counter-culture.
I have. Over-rated. On the plus side, the women will shave and smell better.
Semi-related: I was saying to the GF that I personally know people that are going to freak out and do things like move into a cabin in the middle of nowhere to wait it out. She was like, “please tell me you consider that to be too extreme.” “Its too extreme,” I lied.
Can someone please inform Obama that we are not in the midst of the worst financial crisis in the last century?
You’d think we were all in bread lines every morning the way people talk about it.
>>just you
Wrong. Thanks for playing.
The new Soviet American man.
Fucking ignoramus
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer…
O!
What, sashal, you think you–as a small business owner–will be blessed with the largessse of the Obama administration?
You should maybe put the pipe down for a while and consider how to cut expenses and hide some profits from the IRS.
I wonder if Olby’s figured out yet that he’s destined for the Elephant’s Graveyard of Network TV. I mean, who the hell wants to watch a four-year blow job?
He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine
He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure
Learning to match the beat of the old world man
Learning to catch the heat of the third world man
He’s got to make his own mistakes
And learn to mend the mess he makes
He’s old enough to know whats right
But young enough not to choose it
He’s noble enough to win the world
But weak enough to lose it —
He’s a new world man…
He’s a radio receiver
Tuned to factories and farms
He’s a writer and arranger
And a young boy bearing arms
He’s got a problem with his power
With weapons on patrol
He’s got to walk a fine line
And keep his self-control
Trying to save the day for the old world man
Trying to pave the way for the third world man
He’s not concerned with yesterday
He knows constant change is here today
He’s noble enough to know whats right
But weak enough not to choose it
He’s wise enough to win the world
But fool enough to lose it —
He’s a new world man…
I wonder just how long after Jan 20 it will take before the breathless caterwalling over filling all those unfilled positions on the federal benches-that we need so badly will begin…
Of course, it hasn’t mattered that they’ve been empty because the Dems have blocked any vote on the nominees for the last 4 years…
Kinda like the FEC was short staffed-in a presidential election year where voter fraud and money raising scandal was rampant-owing to Harry Reid’s
connivanceinaction…Can you only imagine the outrage! if the roles were reversed?
from the movie “the shining”
perfected?-no-no-no
‘corrrrrrrected’
they were naughty girls
but i..”corrected” them
you got your mind right
luke?
Techie, this morning on the train I made sure to find “Tom Sawyer” on my ipod, but that’s a good one too.
Again, sashal commenting on a book he refuses to read. That’s the open mind of the obamaton at work.
Sacrifice!
We’ll sacrifice Iraq
We’ll sacrifice Afghanistan
We’ll sacrifice Israel
You’ll sacrifice liberty
You’ll sacrifice economic freedom
You’ll sacrifice territorial integrity
Yeah, it’s all about “sacrifice”.
Sacrifice? Hussein gonna sacrifice your wallet.
“protein jizzdom”
Ooooh, the wit. It burns.
as a proud inmate i will sacrifice my
A-shower time
B-power line
C-lubing myself up and scootching thru the sewer line[shawshank]
C.5-beer-with lime?
The Aztecs were into sacrifice too. Look what that got ’em.
“Comment by mojo on 11/5 @ 12:23 pm #
The Aztecs were into sacrifice too. Look what that got ‘em.”
A bunch of great songs:
“You Gotta Have Heart!”
“Don’t Go Breaking My heart”
“Heart of Gold”
“Heart and Soul”
That line’s not that bad, I think.
It seems to obviously refer to “in order to make a more perfect union”, from the Declaration of Independence.
And I read “perfected” not as “made perfect”, but “made MORE perfect”; it’s just that saying the latter makes it very awkward to say. I mean, think about “Our Union can be more perfected”, or “Our Union can be made more perfect”, or even “The Country can be made better”.
I think it’s just fine as a reference to the Declaration rather than a hint of belief in New Socialist Man And The Blank Slate.
But that’s just me.
It’s a miracle, a messiah miracle. It has to be. Or coincidence, lots and lots of coincidence. Happenstance, yes just happenstance, nothing to see here, these are not the ‘droids you want, move along, move along. Dammit, move on®.
“America can change. Our Union can be perfected.”
I know it’s tedious, but let’s revisit the utter stupidity of the comment.
“America can change.” No shit. Let’s see, we have elections, and our Constitution can be amended. Check. Criminal thugs can fly airliners into tall buildings. Got it. Markets can gain or lose billions in fifteen minutes. Ok, got the changey thing. Five year olds would get it in a flash.
“Our Union can be perfected.” This one takes about a twenty year old (on the outside) to get. Of course, the charlatan, I mean the One (genuflect), garbles the Constitution. A “more perfect Union” is an entirely different kettle of fish, but let’s consider if the Union, my golf game, or any god damned thing for that matter can be perfected. Anyone?
The asinininity is almost criminal. An eight year old might be excused. How about the One? Is he a child, a dope, or a liar? I pick door number three.
And I read “perfected†not as “made perfectâ€Â, but “made MORE perfectâ€Â
Nice for you, but that’s not what he SAID.
Hey, N! You forgot, “Stop Dragging my Heart Around.” Tom Petty, and the, uh, well, you know…
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”?
But that’s just me.
Yes, that just you. For us, over here, words exist in the context in which they were used.
It’s from the Constitution, dimwit, not the Declaration of Independence. Not that O! cares about the Constitution. It’s “restrictive.” And “perfected” means “to make perfect.” If he wanted to say “more perfect” – as the Constitution did – he could have said so. He didn’t, because what he means is he’s going to scorch the earth of the old ways and create something new and in his image. Perfect.
The Declaration says:
My reason is I don’t like f*cking Communists. I like freedom.
MORE perfect
Argh!
Something either IS perfect, or it is NOT. “More perfect” is semantic nonsense.
I don’t know why that’s frightening, since it’s the most reliable force in the universe.
mojo,
It may be semantic nonsense, but it’s Constitutional semantic nonsense. Which is way more than emanating penumbras can say.
Proving that NOBODY is perfect, Deon. Not even Thomas Jefferson, as Mr. Adams pointed out at the time.
“secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”
To O, the constitution is in the way, full of bugs, not features.
He has to swear to protect and defend the constitution. Think that’s an oath he will keep?
No, not in its entirety and full intentions, no. Your earlier citation of liberty/virtue aphorisms points the way to BHO’s differences. Equality is the overarching principle of his philosophical antecedents, not Liberty, not virtue. Virtue, arete, human excellence never sits easily in the camp of democracy. It is hard to see how it ever will. Our republican form of government was intended to adjust the circumstance, mitigate the o’erweening demos. The fight is not over. Back and forth it goes. Equality holds the firmer hand for now.
Nevada has been perfected.
It’s because of the Californians filling the place up, fleeing the perfection they created in California. Same as they did Oregon.
Arizona will be assimilated next.
Vonnegut had a list of ‘liberal crap i never want to hear again.’ Time to add “a more perfect union” to that.
The perfect remains the enemy of the good.
Is this Year Zero?
I couldn’t believe more people didn’t make a stink about this the moment he said it. Scared the life out of me when I read it.
Frack, frack, frackity frackin’ FRACK!
I wish I could get drunk…
heart-the band
barracuda-the song
Palin-the phenom
“Is it just me, or is that like the perfect opening line for the movie version of Liberal Fascism?”
Or Conflict of Visions.
Hundreds of revelations of the idiotic disregard for everything good and useful later, millions say “duh, I nevar heard dat!”
Obama views the Constitution as a hindrance, and if you haven’t got that by now, frankly, you’re never going to get anything. You’re a rock on legs.
Sounds like the origin story for the Reavers from Firefly.
None of the above. He’s a Chicago pol pandering to those he sees as children, dopes, and liars. Take a look at the drivel Thor trickles around this site and you can see that in many cases he’s right.
Thank you for this comment! ,