16
Mar
Just A Quick Question
Andrew Ferguson has a piece on Barack Obama at the Weekly Standard titled the Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama. I have to admit that in my current narcotic induced haze, I did not read the piece. I do, however, have a question:
Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled George Bush’s scrotum for eight years to ponder about the wit and wisdom of anything other than a tree stump?
GSD
Do you think these conservapuds have an ounce of shame?
What would make you think that?
-GSD
demimondian
Categorized…”I read these morons so you don’t have to”.
Um…yeah. Hey, John. Go take a nap.
jake
Narcotic induced haze might be the proper state to read Fergie’s offering (WARNING – Unplug your Irony-o-Meters):
Ted
No. That’s why no one but the cult members read that money-losing, neocon-welfare funded rag.
ThymeZone
No. SA2SQ vol 168.
It’s only a matter of time now before myiq2xu and lukasiak are here to explain how the article is right on to point out that suggesting that the Washington power structure may not have your best interests at heart is … you know … just words. Rays of light, and words.
As opposed to, say, invading a country for no good reason, or lying about a nuclear threat, or torture. Those are real things. Obama is all words. Ignore him. He doesn’t mean them.
There, I just saved two commenters from having to write long, boring posts.
myiq2xu
Next week: The Poetry of George W. Bush
“He who writes on bathroom walls . . .”
myiq2xu
I agree with TZ!
ThymeZone
Cool. How shall we spend our newfound extra time? How about a game of Scrabulous?
Dennis - SGMM
Sounds too much like scrofulous.
Ugh
Fixed.
Rudi
After 7 years of the W chuckle and his lack of “intellectual excursions”, this idiot can’t question anyone.
Incertus
I really am trying to come up with a superlative that would describe the vacancy that is that article, but I come up lacking. What’s so difficult to understand about the line “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Sure, it’s poetic, and a touch abstract, but not impossible to derive meaning from. And I love how the idea that it came from a radical poet (there are non-radical poets, but I doubt anyone is looking to Dana Gioia for political inspiration) somehow makes it a naughty phrase that should never be repeated by serious politicians.
Elvis Elvisberg
It’s actually a pretty interesting article, for the insight on the partisan conservative brain circa 2008. It actually acknowledges that political speeches aren’t expected to be policy white papers, but it ridicules the speeches for not being white papers. Of course, the writer doesn’t bother to look into any of Obama’s actual proposals, because that would be too much like work for a movement conservative.
Also in lieu of examining any actual policy issues, the article criticizes Obama for mentioning people with problems, because it means that he’s engaging in victimization. That’s a neat way to frame one’s indifference to the plight of, say, the uninsured.
The neat part, though, is that it criticizes Obama for failing to specify which evil person is responsible for the various problems he identifies.
Because today’s conservatives literally cannot conceive of beliefs based on anything other than hate and fear of enemies.
ThymeZone
People who like that sort of thing will it the sort of thing they like.
I just made that up.
Please send for my booklet, “Lincoln: The Man, The Car.”
I made that up too.
ThymeZone
“will find it”
Love the editable posts.
dslak
That’s one of the foundations of Neoconservative philosophy, actually. You find it in Carl Schmitt and, to a lesser extent, his protegé Leo Strauss.
ed
The bar on speechmaking and rhetoric is currently very low. It will be a welcome change to have a president who doesn’t sound mentally challenged, let alone one who can inspire anything greater than bootlicking by a handful of the deluded and/or purchased.
The presidential bully pulpit has not ceased to be useful just because the current occupant can’t figure out the operating instructions. Barack Obama has inspired millions with his ideas and soaring rhetoric and all the bleating from the right (and whatever the hell Hillary is) cannot nullify this fact.
D-Chance.
What’s so difficult to understand about the line “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Sure, it’s poetic, and a touch abstract, but not impossible to derive meaning from. And I love how the idea that it came from a radical poet (there are non-radical poets, but I doubt anyone is looking to Dana Gioia for political inspiration) somehow makes it a naughty phrase that should never be repeated by serious politicians.
Not just any poet but a left-wing-radical-feminist-bisexual poet.
The article was Part I: “I don’t know what ‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ means (and neither do you)”, Part II: “Obama is a plagiarist”, and, Part III: “Obama supporters are Teh St00p1d!”. IOW, your typical Weekly Standard crap.
Asti
I’m so glad to see you found a new friend TZ, and a way to spend your time together. How nice.
NoIQ, watch how TZ adds up those words with the big letters, he cheats.
mark
Whatever narcotics you’re on should be put in the D.C. water supply.
Helena Montana
Ick! Thanks a bunch for planting THAT image in my head.
jake
Are you crazy? The unfilterable end-products of Marion Barry’s and GWB’s systems are already in the water supply. Add anything else and you’d get a city-wide O.D that would also take out parts of Northern Va.
bILL b
God Dam America.
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