…in this case, not the least because it posits an America where the Obamas exist outside of the federal government.
Of course, to truly buy into the thought experiment, one must pretend that Billy Ayers and his cabal of dirty influence peddlers wasn’t responsible for building — and then championing — the perfect postmodern candidate, an Other carefully framed to meet the expectations of pop-culture fetishists and superficial diversaphiles who would, were the technology available to them, happily distill, dry out, cut, and then snort their own concentrated sanctimony.
But give it a shot anyway, people. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that.
(h/t bh)
For my part, I prefer to smoke the lost dreams of watching my children enjoy the sorts of liberty and opportunity that I had when I was just starting out. I find it interacts with my prozac less than other substances and only causes medium to severe sleep loss.
In this alternate world, I’m pretty sure I’d have an extra 10 pounds of muscle. And the pragmatists would be giving us a hard time for picking on McCain so much.
Bouncing one more link from the one in the post lands at this, which posits the possibility that a certain Star Trek producer could be said to have destroyed the Trek franchise and the world.
Bad day, should have read farther.
Bad day? That’s what powdered sanctimony is for!
I’m supposed to meet a guy in the alley and score an eight ball. Want to go halves? Turns out it cost a couple trillion dollars… so, I’m a bit short.
he’s a good man though
Makewi, I try to use stuff like this: sometimes it works for a little while, sometimes not.
the o! is a fascist really:
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So what does all this prove? That Obama is a hapless sap caught up in the easy money orgy and therefore unfit to lead the nation? That he had a brilliant plan (cue Blackadder) all along? You guys are truly disintegrating.
Yes cynn, its absolute proof of disintegration to point out that a man who plays fast and loose with his own money will probably do so with the money of others. Pay no attention to the proofs of this theory playing out before your eyes.
If by “you guys” you mean every idea upon which the US was founded, I’ll agree with you, cynn.
Otherwise, own your embarrassment.
You are jumping to conclusions cynn calm down.
it may be the bourbon speaking, but have i told you lately how juch i love you? (and not in a creepy stalker way.) SRSLY, i’m snagging nearly this whole thing. if that’s okay?
Why would you say that about Obama cynn? He has such a sterling background how could anyone think that?
What if’s can be fun. However you can’t just change one and only one thing.
You can’t usually in the real world either, a lesson the political types never seem to learn well.
I don’t think cynn is bright enough to be embarrassed. She doesn’t understand the tremendous gift she got by being born a U.S. citizen, and will only get it when Obama tears down what we have and she is living like his brother in Kenya.
Even then, she will probably blame Bush.
He cares about the less fortunate.
well the annenberg project was the warm up act.
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“Subprime” is the wrong angle.
Their economic behavior indicates expectation of a bailout.
And hey look.
Sowell has a counterfactual for you.
What’s your angle here, geoffb? Because I swear, if you break out the T-square or anything that even sounds like multivariate analysis, I’m going to run out of the room screaming.
Once was enough.
Oh, psycho’s in the brilliant plan camp. No surprise. Obama ran for president and won, simply because he wanted to retroacively fix his mortgage. Fucking genius.
cynn, you’re confused.
I find it entertaining though. Please, carry on.
no the O! won because he great at spending other people’s money and soros likes that when he shorts the dollar.
I would say he won because a ham sandwhich would have won against a Republican in 08 and the fact the media went into the tank for him. Also he lied about taking public financing and his opponent did not.
Oh, so you’re in the grand upheaval camp.
Please don’t bh.
For the past 24 hours reality seems to be screaming at me but it’s speaking some alien language. Or maybe this is the dream part.
No, no, you’re in the Boy Scout Camp. And you’d better get the hell out.
Just like a fascist – always wanting to put people in camps.
No I am in the camp where I am not willing to throw stones at people on the right that are saying far less than Obama=Genocidal Mass Murdering Hitler or burning him in effigy. Call me when that happens.
oh go ask chrysler and gm creditors and the banks who try to give back tarp and the “justice” dept. going after business.
Keep trying. Hint: check the last two paragraphs of the linked post. It’s in English and everything. Sometimes things are less subtext and more, well, text.
I hear you, geoff. Just kidding.
Like a dog slapped around every time they hear a whistle, I’ve learned to duck and cringe when I smell MVA.
Maybe you should try the psuedo erudite mascara, cynn.
Oh, wait, let me be the first to say it becomes you.
Ask GM, you say?
GM shares hit a 76-year low after execs dump stock
General Motors To Import Chinese-Built Cars?
I’m just glad Baracky is in charge of GM now. What could go wrong?
bh: I don’t get your rant. The last two paragraphs are an opinion bit. Yes, I think the Obamas should be beholden to the same crap circumstances that this crap econonomy begets. But unfortunately, HE WON. All bets are apparently off, and all payback is apparently on.
mortgaging is a lot what amounts to the theme of him and his skeezey woman’s tenure in the white house of our little country. What won’t our hungarian muppet Chicago street trash president mortgage is what we’re waiting to discover.
So, I’m reading Big Hollywood, and I come across this blast from the past: (from a debate on ABC, moderator Charlie Gibson)
GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,†which was 28 percent. It’s now 15 percent. That’s almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent. But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.
OBAMA: Right.
GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.
OBAMA: Right.
GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
I wish I got to decide what was fair.
Barry be bunking with his bro. (and he could take his illegal alien Aunt with him)
“HE WON. All bets are apparently off, and all payback is apparently on.”
Have I mentioned how good you look in brown
shirt?“Comment by cynn on 5/12 @ 7:00 pm #
Oh, so you’re in the grand upheaval camp.”
Seeing as how he’s trying to destroy America, well, yeah.
cynn
It is just a little historical “reboot” where one small factor generates an alternative timeline.
Don’t you know your Heinlein? Haven’t you seen the new Star Trek?
Most rational adults had Barry and Michelle pegged when the whining over arugula and fresh fruit started.
Livin’ on a prayer, overextended and close to the edge. Apply a nice coat of polish (thanks, Billy!), say the right things to the shady people; ask for and get help in identifying and applying awkward pressures to the weak links of the opposition.
If one can secure enough of the well-positioned and influential Chicago politicos behind and in front, doors will be opened. Unmarked monies and promises of more will burrow well below the threshold of detection. Those quiet, unwritten (but never forgotten) debts will amass.
Just don’t forget the owing or neglect the ones who are owed. Keep those reparations coming. Or there will be horse’s heads.
Don’t worry, the only T-square I could bring to a discussion, you could use to beat me with.
“Don’t you know your Heinlein?”
{RAISES HAND IN BACK OF CLASS}
Oooooo oooooo I do I do!!!!!!
You know what lee? Make your point.
“Calling a tail a leg doesnn’t make it one.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“The acme of prose style is exemplified by that simple, graceful clause: “Pay to the order of. . . .”‘”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“That old saw about “to understand all is to forgive all” is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand them, the more you loathe them.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “Women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep on trying.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Or you could try the Simpsons.
“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue–and thoroughly immoral– doctrine that ‘violence never solves anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.”
-Robert Heinlein
Darleen: No, I don’t know Heinlein, Rand, NcMurtry, Star Wars or Trek, Oprah, or even the Bush memoirs. I prefer to think for myself.
“Comment by cynn on 5/12 @ 7:29 pm #
Darleen: No, I don’t know Heinlein, Rand, NcMurtry, Star Wars or Trek, Oprah, or even the Bush memoirs. I prefer to think for myself.”
Ah. You’re proud of your ignorance, then.
If you have Robert Heinlein and this kind of thread then you need the world in a Klein bottle. All You Zombies.
I’m proud of my independence. And your excuse?
I’d prefer you do as well, cynn. So? And?
Think, that is.
And prove it.
Why read anything? It’s all second hand at best, and with postmodernism every book can be contained and explained in just.
JHoward, wtf are you talking about? I’ll answer anything.
What are you drinking, cynn?
GeoffB: I might read them, but they don’t define me. Stop being shorthand for you own damn party.
yo cynn
what is O!’s big vision of america?
Did I ever talk about the projection on the Left. Oh, yeah, I did just recently.
How do we run the Turing test if meya isn’t contributing comments as well?
the U.S. Senate … Michelle explained, “It was like Jack and his magic beans.”
I think she meant Jack and his magic offs.
Comment by geoffb on 5/12 @ 7:31 pm #
Muchas gracias, senor!
You are welcome. It’s one of my favorites.
Of course, to truly buy into the thought experiment, one must pretend that Billy Ayers and his cabal of dirty influence peddlers wasn’t responsible for building — and then championing — the perfect postmodern candidate, an Other carefully framed to meet the expectations of pop-culture fetishists and superficial diversaphiles who would, were the technology available to them, happily distill, dry out, cut, and then snort their own concentrated sanctimony.
That is fucking poetry. Well, it is if you’re Ogden Nash and hitting the meth pipe hard.
In my view, Obama is merely trying to pull this country back from the brink. The fact that he has dared to speak to leaders of other countries indicates that he is trying to repair the damage of the past.
Yes, thanks, geoffb. How did you ever find that gem? The rooftop of that site is most unusual.
your opinion and what the communist in chief does are mutually exclusive.
Oh, my favorite Heinline:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
What brink is that, cynn?
Cynn, you’ve the pitching manure down pat. Can you cook?
No, no, you’re in the Boy Scout Camp. And you’d better get the hell out.
I was at a Boy Scout Camp the other night for an Eagle ceremony. A lot of talk about responsibilty, citizenship, honor, bravery, reverence and the duty of the Eagle to exhibit them. No wonder the Left hates the Scouts with a blinding passion.
Well, you and Jhoward can go work that out.
Clink! Clink! Another Brink
Jeffersonian: I don’t hate the Rights or the Scouts. Just don’t be gay.
your president is dirty cynn
Serr8ed,
I knew the title and just googled.
I am glad that Obama has dared to speak to foreign leaders in the hopes of repairing past damages. I wonder how that went.
Later I’m going to dare to speak to people as well. I am sure other people have at some point wronged them, so it should be good for all involved.
And your #74 is how I’ve tried to live, tried is the operative word.
My point?
OK, you know that “change” thing Obama was always on about? What he has in mind is “changing” this country from “of the people, for the people”, to a monarchy, with him as king. He wants to rule, constitution and individual liberty be damned.
He wants to fire CEO’s of private company’s, dictate how much can be spent on advertising, and decide who gets paid how much.
He wants to run the banking industry.
He wants to be able to determine how much a doctor can be paid, and which medical tests a citizen can have.
He wants to appoint judges who peek from behind the blindfold and determine law with empathy, rather than apply the law and constitution.
He wants to establish a mandatory, unpaid youth corp of his design.
He wants to spend not just our money, or our kids, but our grandkids money.
He wants to determine tax code by his own idea of “fairness”, not sound economics.
He wants to humble our country before the world, rather than promote it’s greatness.
My point? Obama is a megalomaniac that wants to turn “I won” from a term of service to the individual people of this country into a dictatorial fascist state that bares no resemblance to the Constitutional Republic for which I stand.
And you voted for the bastard, you stupid bitch.
Happyfeet: My Presideht may be dirty, but my hands are clean!
Okay, a bit off-topic, and possibly discussed before, but:
When Meghan McCain used the phrase “dirty moderate” in that silly piece at the Daily Beast, did anyone else wonder why she used “dirty”. That’s not a common phrase “dirty moderate”. “Dirty” isn’t either, really.
Was that an unintentional nod to pw and hf?
I just don’t want you to get hurt. Be careful with this one promise? He’s not what he seems.
Re: 74, I think I’m an insect pretending to be human.
lee: you can’t substantiate any of your ravings.
Oh noes, Meghan is a follower of happyfeet, for reals.
oh. Now she’s mocking me personally is that how she’s gonna play it huh. I will just have to rise above, bh.
85
You fit alot of my thoughts into one comment. Thank you.
Re: 74, I think I’m an insect pretending to be human.
You’ve got a place in the administration, bh. All federal policy is henceforth being based on behavior models of ant and bee colonies.
“He wants to fire CEO’s of private company’s, dictate how much can be spent on advertising, and decide who gets paid how much.”
Cynn do you read the f@ckin news?
Rejoice.
lee: you can’t substantiate any of your ravings
Just off the top of my head, I can substantiate about 2/3 of them. What cave do you live in, Cynn?
“He wants to spend not just our money, or our kids, but our grandkids money.”
Cynn do you read the f@ckin news?
“He wants to determine tax code by his own idea of “fairnessâ€, not sound economics.”
Cynn do you listen to what Obama says or do you just imagine it?
“He wants to appoint judges who peek from behind the blindfold and determine law with empathy, rather than apply the law and constitution.”
Cynn Obama said that less than a month ago when Souter announced his retirement.
Cynn, you sound like Elizabeth Edwards. Like Megan McAllister. Maybe mostly like Shaggy.
megans lead us dear
“It is happening again, it is happening again”.Twin Peaks reference intentional.
lee #85- U woke this lurker up.
Thank you.
“Comment by cynn on 5/12 @ 7:54 pm #
In my view, Obama is merely trying to pull this country back from the brink.”
In my view, he’s trying to kick America into the fascist abyss.
“The fact that he has dared to speak to leaders of other countries indicates that he is trying to repair the damage of the past.”
The fact that he talks to fascist thugs kinda shows his true colors.
I’m a human pretending to be penguins.
hey megan you be hookin’ up with colon?
Then I would suggest you remove your ass ASAP; because any day now we will confisgate your shitty worthless property.
“Comment by SarahW on 5/12 @ 8:28 pm #
Cynn, you sound like Elizabeth Edwards. Like Megan McAllister. Maybe mostly like Shaggy.”
Rut Roh!
Is “confisgate” anything like Watergate?
i denounce the progg republicans f@@k ’em
Then I would suggest you remove your ass ASAP; because any day now we will confisgate your shitty worthless property.
I’d say Cynn’s bucking for a czarina spot.
Nobrain: confisgate is even worse than seize (sp) because it’t so ominous.
And this has gotten us where, exactly, so far?
Can we settle on Obsconded?
we will confisgate your shitty worthless property?
hahahahaha
Oh you poor deluded, useful idiot you!
hahahahaha
I’m breathing, are you?
O!sconded.
steal? rob? unlawful takings?
how much are you costing the gov’t?
I’m proud of my independence
I don’t think the word means what you think it does. “Independence” is not a synonym for “ignorance”.
Cynn I am sorry if I am personally attached to OUR freedoms. When I hear “shit” freedoms which I fought for being taken away I get pissed. Even supposedly “dangerous” ones like smoking in a bar or driving with my cell phone on. So maybe you might find some CEO you never knew getting his freedom snatched away nothing to worry about, I don’t. My opinion is valid.
OK, so Darleen marches in and flips on the light, and Mr. Pink has major issues, guess I gotta go.
I would say, “Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out,” but I would rather it did.
cynn brings to mind an old conversation I had.
In the end, a lot of this comes down to how old you were when you figured out the way things are. See the Rhetoric and Pedagogy thread for the Hobbes discussion.
If you figured that out early, you’re conservative/classically liberal. As you interpreted the new information coming your way, you had a mental hook to place it on.
If you never figured this out or you figured it out after you fully developed your personality, you’re just eternally optimistic about the various utopian plans and schemes you hear about.
cynn, what I’m saying is, you might not be able to grow up, because you can only grow up in your youth, not as an adult.
Plus he used a “snatch” variation.
Ugggh. You’re conducting breathless mouth breathing. And here I thought you were coming along quite nicely.
oops, totally wrong website!
try koskids
oh lordy, I missed this one
The fact that he has dared to speak to leaders of other countries indicates that he is trying to repair the damage of the past
Cuz, like using Israel as a tasty appetizer to get Iran to the table is really going to work out so well.
Did I say megalomania?
Why yes, yes I did.
I think they’re huffing too much over there; think I’ll sstay here.
I am itching to play someone off with Keyboard cat. But It doesn’t seem to work with blog comments.
andy make you dandy
Termites actually. Check out E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology for a truly frightening vision of a well-managed society in our brave, brave new world..
That guy? Genius.
They might be on drugs, hard to tell these days.
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve read that. Must be buried around here somewhere.
From what brink, cynn? Remember: You’re the independent thinker; maybe enough with the talking points, eh? In your view, from what brink, cynn?
Probably lee can substantiate all of his ravings, cynn. Probably I can substantiate all of his ravings, cynn.
But would it batter to your view?
Re: Cynn’s ‘brink’
Obama seeks to pull us back from the brink of another 230 years of a belief in individual freedom, traditional religion, limited government, property rights, the rule of law, free markets, laissez-faire economics and market competition.
I want to know how getting the President of France to mock him, the German PM to tell him “nein, danke” and the Israeli PM to ignore him is pulling us back from the brink? Maybe it was the cutting missile defense, nuclear weapons PM/QA or the F-22 that kept us from danger?
Wait, was it the deciding a car maker’s advertising budget that saved us from the plunge?
The problem with people like Cynn is that this country’s freedoms have allowed them the luxury of being utterly stupid. The election of Obama gives them even more reason to luxuriate in their stupidity.
Cynn’s lack of critical-thinking skills represents a waste of human potential. Cynn actually knows that about herself. She and her ‘peeps’ maybe at one time could have amounted to something even they liked. But in truth, they don’t like themselves much … because there is nothing to like, is there, Cynn? And it our fault isn’t it, Cynn?
*In my view, Obama is merely trying to pull this country back from the brink.*
By spending like a drunken sailor and taxing the living shit out of everyone who makes money (and thus contributes to employing the less fortunate, who Obama claims to care so much about). I mean, you don’t agree the government running automakers is not a good thing ?
Have to add I disagree with lee – Obama’s not trying to be king. Instead, he’s being run by a group of people who a. want to hold onto power at all cost and b. believe the only way to do so is by making people, companies, everybody more dependent on governement and thus beholden to the people in power (ie them).
Claiming Obama wants to be king or “destroy the country” or constantly harping on the stupid birth certificate thing is counter productive to making a common sense argument about obama and his parties’ real motivation. They pander because they want to stay in power, they want to stay in power to reap the benefits of power, they lie to cover up their pandering so they can stay in power and they crush dissent because dissent sheds light on their lies.
I don’t care if Obama wants to be emperor of the universe- what I do care about is he’s undermining the founding principles of this country so he and his buddies can Alinsky in the socialist paradise they believe will keep them and their party in power in perpetuity.
Matt: “Obama’s not trying to be king. Instead, he’s being run by a group of people who. want to hold onto power at all cost and b. believe the only way to do so is by making people, companies, everybody more dependent on governement and thus beholden to the people in power (ie them).
Claiming Obama wants to be king or “destroy the country†or constantly harping on the stupid birth certificate thing is counter productive to making a common sense argument about obama and his parties’ real motivation.”
Holding on to power by “making people, companies, everybody more dependent on governement and thus beholden to the people in power (ie them).” = “wants to be king or ‘destroy the country'”
Common sense tells me that IS Obama’s ‘real motivation.’ Same difference.
Not only do I think Obama (or at least his party’s) motivations is to increase a permanent voter base (expanding federal employees, expanding various forms of hand-outs), but I also think there must be some sort of ego/hero complex. He’s going to be Martin Luther King Jr and change the world. Except the changes he’s making are statist in nature. He wants to reorganize “us” to suite his vision.
And that vision is very, very flawed. He imagines himself a new FDR.
That’s pretty much the same thing, Matt. Basically the how and why sides of the same coin.
Cynn I am not the one with a problem you are. You are denying what is going on and what is easily verifiable in mainstream news because of the manlove you have for one politician you never met. You might as well have a Tigerbeat poster with Zach Efron up on your bedroom wall.
You know, maybe its Jeff’s tutelage but I fear hyperbole when the situation appears so dire. I think you folks are right obviously- king, emperor, Flash- aaahh-aaahhhh- Savior of the Universe… whatever you want to call it, he wants to be it. But we say “King” the and left blows it up into an argument about kings and they’ll say stupid things like “well its not like hes’ wearing a crown” to distract from the real point. The people who don’t get politics also say “well come on, even if he’s wrong, he doesn’t want to be king” and the discussion with the less informed gets bogged down into a semantic discussion about “what is a king.” It happens that way, I think, because the left realizes people are not very bright and are easily distracted by shiny argument (read : distracting and stupid but kinda interesting- more interesting to them then say intentionalism).
Nobody is more frustrated then I am about the rather dire situation we see developing- I think we just have to argue against it without exaggeration, as our common sense fact based arguments should be sufficient without the attempts to inflame based on hyperbole.
That being said, I generally nod my head when happy types “hungarian socialist muppet” and have used same in discussions with co-workers- then we get bogged down in a discussion about what a muppet is and whether muppets can come from hungary and whether hungary is actually socialist. I should practice what I preach I guess =x
Right. Not a crown. And I’ll recall something I said yesterday.
Matt, do you find anything of Charles Krauthammer’s analysis of Obama’s intentions to be useful, for instance? Krauthammer mostly sticks to the facts or, in the alternative, Obama’s own words as matter from which to draw inferences and conclusions (only throwing in the rare hyperbolic jest, and even then apologizing almost immediately for taking the liberty).
I thought it interesting that last night, during the discussion of the apparent Obama admin moves to maybe, possibly, refuse to publish forthwith the photographs of US service personnel in various ugly compromised positions of wrongdoing, and maybe, possibly, push back against the ACLU and take the case further up the appeals process, Krauthammer contrasted Obama’s belief that with his ascension to the Presidency all former US policy and history could be set aside, that he, Obama, couldn’t be held responsible for the things he himself had not done and that therefore he could accede to the ACLU without any untoward consequence to himself. Now, Krauthammer points out, Obama seems to begin to understand that should he publish the photos, and should US personnel be harmed, killed even, in any subsequent backlash, he, Obama, will be held accountable for having issued the order to publish the photos. The immaturity of Obama’s position, both before and after this change of view, it seems to me, is the problem, no matter what “ends” Obama may choose to pursue.
cynn,
Here’s substation for at least one (with the aim of adding a second) of Lee’s ravings in a very aptly timed article from the WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124215896684211987.html
Headline: “U.S. Eyes Bank Pay Overhaul”
Paragraph #1:
“WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services industry, including at companies that did not receive federal bailout money, according to people familiar with the matter.”
I’d highlight the portion in the middle “INCLUDING AT COMPANIES THAT DID NOT RECEIVE FEDERAL BAILOUT MONEY” but my HTML-fu is lacking.
Instead of “king”, how about “Presidente”?
Oh, and the word ravings in the above should read “ravings” (with quotes), as once again, cynn uses a word that doesn’t mean what she thinks it means.
Didn’t one of Obama’s advisors say something about “ready to rule on day one”?
American Presidents don’t rule. They govern, or serve. They are not our rulers — in the American Experiment, we’re supposed to be our own rulers.
Also you had the video the celebrity tools put out where they said they were ready to serve Obama.
In the end, a lot of this comes down to how old you were when you figured out the way things are.
Since I was involved in that discussion, where would you plot me on your scale? I’m just curious.