The big news this week is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in love. Everyone is cool with it, especially Bill Clinton. This may prove to be a complicated relationship, however, because Obama is actually Jesus Christ. His ascension is scheduled to take place before a live audience tonight in Denver at approximately 8:30 Mountain Daylight Time.
There was some question about whether Obama's heavenly citizenship will prohibit him from serving as U.S. president, but legal experts concur that since heaven is somewhere "way way up there," it is technically in U.S. airspace. They note by way of precedent that Dick Cheney did not stop being Vice-President for the 18 consecutive months he spent flying across the country after the 9/11 attacks.
In related news, Obama has selected Joe Biden to be his Vice-President. Biden is a wise statesman from the Senate, and not the mean-spirited, plagiarizing, third-rate legal mind and lifetime politician from Scranton who also goes by that name.
Obama's team is also expected to include Moses as National Security Advisor, St. Paul as Secretary of State, and Elijah as campaign spokesman.
The Republicans, meanwhile, plan to proceed with their convention next week at an undisclosed IHOP in Canada, where John McCain will lie in state.
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Seriously, does this kind of puerile drivel pass for humor in libertarian circles?
This must be a meaning of the word "accurate" I was previously unaware of.
Sure, if by "accurate and incisive", you mean sarcastic.
Some folks are put off by anyone with even a tinge of idealism or vision for the future. It *is* a jarring departure from the Bush regime. The idea that we could form a more perfect union is pretty radical.
It'd be fun to see press conferences where questions get the response - "Are you arguing with me? I'm Elijah the prophet!"
About as useful as the ones we get now anyway.
Can you idiots please stop feeding the garbage about greek columns.
INVESCO STAGE is being built to honor MLK.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/28/12215/9423/248/577418
Did you also know that McCain was a POW for 5 and 1/2 years? He told me he doesn't talk about being a POW because being a POW shouldn't be used for political gain. He learned this during his 5 and 1/2 years as a POW.
Can you idiots please stop feeding the garbage about greek columns.
INVESCO STAGE is being built to honor MLK.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/28/12215/9423/248/577418
I think this post contradicts a previous post which said:
The political stories just get stupider. Don't we have anything substantive to talk about?
Martin: "Idealism" and "Vision for the future" have historically been at best neutral in term of actual outcomes, and at worst, lead to piles of corpses. (Sometimes, of course, they work out for the better, too. But I see no reason to believe they have predictive value for the outcome.)
People make fun of Obama because they see no substance behind the idealism and vision. Even if that's not an accurate perception, as some claim, it's still the perception.
(The other problem is, what details we have seem to be less "idealistic" and "visionary" and more "same old Democrat platform. With more State-controlled "service" programs for "volunteering".)
And of course, to claim that the Bush administration provided no "idealism" or "vision for the future" requires ignoring all that pesky stuff that much of the Left has been complaining about these past 6 or 7 years involving neo-conservatism and the oft-stated goal of spreading representative government, such as in Iraq.
I suppose that might count as too practical and actually being done to be under the "idealistic and visionary" heading?
(This holds even if you think the efforts in Iraq weren't worth their cost or that the war was wrong for some other reason; idealism and vision are not, after all, about cost/benefit analyses or agreeing with the vision.)
I wonder if the fool who greenlit the temple-esque approach will ever work in politics again. I'm an Obama supporter, and even I can barely keep from rolling my eyes when I see pics of it.
I wonder if the fool who greenlit the temple-esque approach will ever work in politics again. I'm an Obama supporter, and even I can barely keep from rolling my eyes when I see pics of it.
So is any criticism of Obama allowed?
Any at all?
Or is that the equivalent of messing with someone's religion now?
To me the columns look like they were stolen from a Yanni concert. Obama, Live at the Acropolis!
Wow a sarcastic article that craps all over everyone! How original!
So is any criticism of Obama allowed?
Any at all?
Or is that the equivalent of messing with someone's religion now?
Posted by Michael | August 28, 2008 1:34 PM
That pretty much nails it.
This reminds of a joke that was posted here about a month ago by a commenter that went by the name, Passerby:
"So is any criticism of Obama allowed?
Any at all?
Posted by Michael"
Is no talking point too stupid for you to boldly repeat it? Any at all?
I was planning on staying home, but I think I'll go out to vote against Biden. The guy just creeps me out. His shiftiness on Iraq. Criticism is fine, but do it constructively.
You truly are a hack.
Go back to blogging about your new iPhone and playing Wii. Christ, you disgust me.
How did everyone miss this:
Some folks are put off by anyone with even a tinge of idealism or vision for the future.
Now that is funny.
Heck, I'm probably way to the "right" of most of you and I thought it was funny as hell.