Or are you just Chris Matthews?
Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama’s speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this historic collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.
Includes themes of democracy, politics, war, terrorism, race, community, jurisprudence, faith, personal responsibility, national identity, and above all, his hoped-for vision of a new America. POCKET OBAMA is a portable, everyday primer for readers who want to examine the substance of his thought and reflect on the next great chapter in the American story.
Can I gag now?
When I was in China they tried to sell me a little red book. Of course, they also tried to sell me a Chairman Mao watch with a mechanically waving Mao arm.
Guess which one I bought.
Before the man is canonized shouldn’t he have to , oh I don’t know, do something first?
It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.
Is it red?
Maybe I’ll ply her with dinner and some wine and give my wife a Pocket Obama tonight.
Here we go…
We’ve heard how he is Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Washington, and Jefferson…
Now I guess we need to add Mao to that list!
When will the MSM admit that this is just plain creepy, and a cult of personality; like Kim Jong Il…
Creepy fuck. It’s the historians what will end up hating him most I think. He’s gaying up history at an unprecedented pace.
Does it come with a blue poopy suit? and a matching cap?
When can I get the electronic version for my Blackberry? Can’t be a Borg unless you’re wired in.
Big D, I’m gonna have to denounce you. Your comment has that racist feel to it.
I’m holding out for a Chia Obama.
O’s lovely speaking voice, I’ve found, I can’t take in presidential doses. He’s like australian ginger with that soap taste if you eat more than two pieces. Turns out that he hurts my ears and is a relentlessly stentorian scold.
I was kind of sick this past week and not quite myself. I ended up in the ER yesterday in a mild delirium. I’m told that when O came on TV the last few days, I would say “OW! shut up you windbag.” Usually I’m more polite to the TV.
oh. That’s terrible. Feel better, you, to where you don’t feel sick anymores.
I haven’t listened to Baracky at length since … I can’t remember really. I usually just read his crap. And mock it. Cause I hate him.
In the 90’s my TV had a function where you could program 3 characters that would appear onscreen when you pushed “info” on the remote, “CBS”, “ABC”, etc. I programed “LIE” into all of them and it was helpful to get through the news and political programs.
I wonder if my new set will do that too.
They don’t know who he is any better than he does himself. He’s a cipher.
Maybe, Sdferr, they’re taking the tack of “never interrupt your opponent when he’s making a mistake”?
Could be Rob, you’re on to a possibility. I take it you’re thinking of his “open up to Iran” turd floated during the campaign, yes?
I’m just thinking of Democrat foreign policy in general. Maybe they’ll send Albright over to dance with them.
I think I’ll get a little blue book and fill it with quotes from my own damn blog.
“What? Your book doesn’t say that? You must have gotten one of those defective scam books. Mine came direct from Teh O!ne Himself.”
Fortunately for Baracky’s followers, any uncomfortable similarities between this and the mass murdering tyrant Mao’s Little Red Book can be disregarded since Pocket Obama
isn’t full of Marxist propaganda and class warfare rhetoricdoesn’t have a red cover. Completely different you see. When the gulags get built*, THAT’s when you need to start worrying.*by non-white construction workers of course
I did a brief search at that History Company website looking for anything comparable for a Republican prez. The best I could come up with was a bust of Reagan, which I’m thinking of ordering…. to crack the skulls of people vapid enough to buy Maobama’s Little Blue Book.
Sanity is not statistical.
Robert George recommending Republicans pay close attention to Obama’s words and actions and then apply the game theoretical principle of tit for tat.
This so utterly last century socialist, it’s embarassing. This is the end of this country. The democratic party creates dolts.
Nah, they don’t make ’em, they just use ’em.
I love the hype. It’s so much like advertising. Like the Superbowl hype, but now it is ‘the kick-off’, and the clock runs for at least four years. Good luck running your plays, President Obama.
Rusty:
Almost twenty years back I had dinner in a restaurant in Melvindale – ‘Three Brothers II’ – a Polish restaurant. (I think that was the name.) On the wall by the register there was a picture of the Pope, and a picture of Franklin Roosevelt.
The cult of personality thing isn’t exactly new to American politics. I think the American Republic will survive this bout of worship, if history is anything to go by.
If he is such a memorable speaker, how come I can’t think of one memorable line he has uttered.
“You are likeable enough, Hillary.” is the only thing that comes to mind.
I remember this one pretty well B Moe:
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”
I see I just don’t even need to comment anymore…
Disown? I thought it was “disarm.”
How could I forget such soaring rhetoric?
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody”
It’s soared, SOARED into my memory.
Oh. Wait a minute. I think B Moe may have meant operative statements. My bad.
A friend of mine claimed to have had a German great-grandfather who kept a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II on his wall until the day he died.
carp, that gives us, what? a couple day’s worth of statements to work with.
It does tend to sort of cramp the available set, maggie.
so are they gonna put “use by” dates on these little books?
Is that an Obama in my pocket or am I just happy to see you ?
#39 Sdferr:
And my anecdote took place in the early 1990’s. A friend of mine told me about the restaurant, he wa an accountant at a Ford plant and went there for lunch with some older accountants. It was not the place to have lunch if you wanted to work afterwards. Potatoes, cabbage, beets, pork, beef, etc. Very solid, very heavy, very nap-inducing.
But very good – so not Sysco or Gordons pre-selected restaurant food. Don’t know if it is still there, or if I could find it again.
bullfrog,
You’re a genius, friend. You’ve coined an entirely new term of derision; “MaObama”…
May I use it?
New euphemism for masturbation: thumbing through his Pocket Obama.
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Maybe it will have helpful advise like Ayatollah Khomeini’s “Blue Book”.
I’ve got my own little book. It’s got the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in it. At the risk of being seen as politically incorrect, does Obama’s have yellow pages in it?
When is Obama going to come out with the uniform? I was thinking bell bottoms and a Nehru jacket for his brownshirts. And the armband. I mustn’t forget the armband.
You know what would be a hilarious “Pocket Obama”? Sixty pages of “Uh, um, er, let me finish my waffles, sweetie, um, er…”
I keep a picture of Stalin in the hall closet.
It’s my Closet Commie. If you act now, you can get a Closet Commie, free, with your order of two Pocket Obamas.
But hurry.. We can’t do this all day.
SSG Ratso — you’re supposed to put the Commie under your bed.
At least if the gulags are built by non-white construction workers with no experience working construction, they should be pretty easy to break out of.
You just have to look for the silver lining.
Under the bed?
Now that would just be wierd.
Mikey. I’m not as optimistic as you are. People who are old enough to know better sit there like moon faced dimwits and talk of all the hope and change they know not what of. Apparently 52% of the population have IQs less than 80. I am not hopeful.
Rusty, the shelf-life of pop idols is way shorter nowadays than it was back when.
Sorry to hear you’re under the weather, SarahW. Got to laugh though at how fast our jug-eared Jesus has gone from O! to Oh? to OW! among his supporters. I’m loving the contortions our illustrious media are going through. They were instrumental in selling the American voters a pig in a poke (granted they bought him first). Now that we’re getting a peek in the poke they’re desperate to smear some lipstick on the pig and tell us what a wonderful deal we got. If you could see their faces they’d probably be grinnin’ like an egg-sucking dog all the while.
but that’s where the kitty hides when the door bell rings.
Well that explains this
http://www.rathergood.com/laibach
“When is Obama going to come out with the uniform? I was thinking bell bottoms and a Nehru jacket for his brownshirts. And the armband. I mustn’t forget the armband.”
MrakD – I was hoping for something a bit more unusal – Like a zoot suit. I’ve always wanted an excuse to get one of those. Then I could throw more 1940s hep cat talk around too.
Hmmm. Not bad, only two typos before I finished my coffee.
Maj John, zoots might fit nicely with my thought the other day that Obama may alone have the requisite star power to bring back spats. I can see it.
Those big-assed watch chains might be useful, too, ‘specially if they were motorcycle chains or something like that.
On the comment on Obama having to “do” something before he is etched in the annuls of greatness…..N0, he doesn’t.
He is the first half white, half black POTUS and it is a historical event, the threshold of racism has been crossed by him winning the election.
Unfortunately, historic president and “greatness” are to entirely different aspects that rarely merge as one “great individual”.
Obama is not a rare individual, the halls of liberalism are full of Obama’s and they are historically wrong, and not only wrong but the direct opposite of logical,decent or right on any issue at any time.
If I was one of his speech writers, I’d be mighty pissed. I bet many of those quotes came from his speeches, which he didn’t write, so the “pearls of wisdom” aren’t really his.
On a whim, I googled “Obama Dildos” and got 5.3 million hits and a picture of Parsnip and Thor.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama+dildo&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
I can’t stop laughing…..
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