Beer goggles.
I wish someone out there had the time to do nothing but compile a database of:
1. Every instance of a liberal saying how stupid Dubya was over the last 7 years, which they said based on various gaffes, mispronunciations, and so on…
and
2. Every instance of the stupid shit Obama is saying on a daily basis, which none of these selfsame liberals are talking about at all, and are in fact marching ever onward in their “He’s so charismatic and smart!” parade.
The charts and graphs you could produce with this data would be beautiful works of art. And also RACIST!
I saw a comment on Hot Air that nailed the Obama phenomenon right on the head: Beer goggles. It’s like half the country is so drunk that they see this bumbling doofus as some sort of studly genius, and frankly, I’m embarrassed for these people.
Anyway. I am dying to know what sorts of monkeys certain liberals would Photoshop with Dubya’s face if he said something like this:
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.”
But that’s just another verbal gaffe and not something anyone should take all that seriously. So next you have to wonder what they’d do with Dubya (or any Republican) telling a blatant lie, like this:
“This past, uhh, this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to, uhh, call for divestment from Iran…”
As Ed Morrissey helpfully points out, Obama’s not on that committee, or any of its subcommittees.
So now he’s just lying. Not gaffe-ing or bumbling, but lying. Which is clearly the mark of a brilliant and charismatic man, and if you disagree then you sir are a hillbilly.
But, ya know, it’s truthy and them Obamites don’t actually do any research. The Chosen One said it, so it’s Gospel.
“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” –Barack Obama in The Audacity of Hope
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pmActually I do agree, but I don’t want that to git in the way of my bein’ a hillbilly anyways.
The guy is a certifiable dolt, recognized in all 57 states.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pmThis rocks.
Google the phrase — stupid shit obama says
Hit “I’m feeling lucky”
Go RCHL!
EDIT: ccs — try it without the quotes for a little historical hysteria from our gracious hostess.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pmBeer Goggles, huh?
He’s young and energetic and charming, but underneath the physical aspect is an empty suit with bad policy that’s been done to death and is doomed to fail. Dressing it up with fancy slogans and pretty graphics, doesn’t make it work. But pointing that out makes me racist or something.
Somewhere, Hillary is plotting…haha
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:10 pmuhhhh, 14K, when I googled that phrase I got back
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 pmCCS - When I tried it it sent me here. Maybe if you try it without the quotes?
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 pmI happened to turn on R. Limbaugh at a going-to-commercial-break and he played this two minute long segment of Barry going “Um…Uh…Um…”.
Laffed my heinie off, I did. Sounds like every off-the-cuff Obamaremark I’ve been hearing since this whole crapfest started. No script? Then, he’ll sound dumber than a hammer.
What a trip - G. Bush is held up as the worlds biggest imbecile for mis-pronouncing “Nuclear” and this clown gets a free pass.
Just looked it up on the R. L. site - it’s like 7 minutes long, and promises no “uh’s” are repeated. Take a listen. Pretty funny.
Thanks, Rachel, great fun here every day.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pmThis is the opening phrase of the apocalypse, people.
Closely followed by “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
Big Brother begins now.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:26 pmPack up your guns, fellow bitterites. But I gotta tell you, when he abolishes the orgasm, I’m headed to Canada. Or France. Whatever.
Via Ace, check out “anonymous’” contribution to the anti-Obama brigade. Frackin’ hilarious…
Awesome, and if you don’t like, then you, sir, are worse than Hitler.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 pmDamn it…here’s the link.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/obama_chance.gif
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 pmDan Quayle got what, one, two moments of ‘duh!’ before he was branded a hopeless moron?
George Allen got one, and he was provoked — Obama is a veritable font of unforced errors!
Rick —
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:31 pmdid you hear that Cookie had compiled all the “ums” from the 40 minute interview and ended up with not just two, but eight minutes!You sure did! That’s another moment of ‘duh’ for me — is anybody counting? 14k?I would like to remind people that one can be both liberal AND not think the sun shine’s from Barack Obama’s posterior. Believe me, it is truly possible.
But I’m not giving up my right to want to throw a brick at my TV every time GW says “nuke-u-ler”.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmPack up your guns, fellow bitterites.
Hey! That’s CLINGY bitterites, buddy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pmClaiming Obama is articulate = racist
Claiming Obama is not articulate = racist
Focusing on Obama = racist
Ignoring Obama = racist
Wow, I guess there’s just no telling how people are going to react…
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:41 pmBrooke,
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pmBush can say nuke-u-lar all he likes — better that Carter’s “new-key-er,” and he was trained in “new-key-er” engineering! — as long as he approves of building more plants!
Hey, it’s still your TV.
At least until Big Bro’ wit the fro from cheeCAWgo gets in office.
Then it’ll be a Thoughtcrime, cuz’ your telescreen will be pwned by the gubermint.
Here’s a link to Encyclopedia Baracktannica.
And one to Bushims.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 pmObama only pretends to be stupid so he can relate to us mere mortals better. See how brilliantly that works?
He’s so dreamy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pmI think that the obamassiah says stuff like that because he truly believes that the people are just_too_stupid to know that he’s lying and call him on it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmAnd he’s going to speak in Germany at the Victory Column - thinking that it symbolizes HIS victory (upcoming) - but not realizing that it is the most well-known symbol of and meeting place for the homosexuals of Germany.
I still don’t know why everybody says that obbie is such an eloquent and charismatic speaker. I’ve never thought that; and have, from the first time that I heard him, thought that he was stilted and inarticulate. (Of course, seeing him speak without a teleprompter is a riot! No wonder he won’t debate McCain in a townhall setting.) Perhaps I’m just missing something when I hear him speak - but he sort of reminds me of Adlai Stevenson — but not as glib or funny.
Of course, I’m old and not hip — and a clingy, gun-hugging racist, but—————–
He’s been lying right along, remember Auschwitz? Remember Selma? This is from the American Spectator from a week ago, before BO’s latest batch was even uttered:
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pmAnd my hero, FWIW!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pmIt’s only a lie if a white man says it. RACIST! IT”S HIS RIGHT TO CLAIM IT IS HIS COMMITTEE, THE WHITE MAN WAS KEEPING HIM OUT.
Oh, and GLOBAL WARMING!! BUSH LIED!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:03 pmBTW, I’m a Clinger too. I was in a gun shop yesterday, and the proprietor asked me if I was voting Obama. I said no, I was a Clinger. He shook my hand and said “Welcome to my store, Clinger!”
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:04 pmRachel, you need to acquaint yourself with GraphJam.
Guaranteed to increase workplace distraction by 20% or your money back!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pmLincoln said:
That’s eerily similar to what an Obama supporter told me when she was canvassing for him before the primary. She — hippie type: hiking shorts, polar fleece windbreaker and birks — came to my door and asked me whether I would be voting for Obama in the primary.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm“Not bloody likely.”
Well, could I just give her one reason why not?
“He’s an empty suit; there’s no there there.”
She then proceeds to explain to me that Obama can’t say anything too specific because he’s so brilliant that the public just wouldn’t understand it.
Silently stared at her as if to say, “Obviously he’s too ‘brilliant’ for you,” for about 25 seconds before telling her she was wasting her time talking to me.
After all his stupidity and lies, here’s how Obama is perceived by at least one AP reporter, just a little over an hour ago:
I’m going to go eat some “big carrots” and burn some “big sticks” and have myself a good cry — the thought of that airy-fairy cream puff in the Oval Office actually makes me fear for the future of my not-yet-conceived grandchildren.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 pmAnd those of us old enough to remember…how Dan Quayle was savaged over gaffes less than the ones Obama is making.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm“She then proceeds to explain to me that Obama can’t say anything too specific because he’s so brilliant that the public just wouldn’t understand it.”
Oh.
My.
God.
Even I, the leftest of all of you, can’t believe anyone would say anything that stupid to someone about politics. But then, I’d never canvas in birks either. (Nor do I own any.)
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 pmBECASUE OF THE HOPINESS!!!!
BECAUSE OF TEH CHANGITUDE!!!!!!11!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmMost depressing election ever.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 pmClearly what “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s” means is that… ummm…. Israel has self esteem. And uh… that means ummm…. that uh… oh screw it, Rachel’s right, it is too dumb to make fun of.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:06 pmRachel, you wanted a site on Obama screwups? Here it is:
http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:25 pmLet’s see, earlier this week I found out I am a RACIST. Yesterday, I found out I am a REDNECK. Today, I find out I’m a HILLBILLY.
…pardon me, I need to take a moment here, I am VERY PROUD…
Tomorrow, I am gonna learn me how to SHOOT. [spits]
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 pmAre you F&^%ING kidding me?
You know, this is just the kind of stuff that’s going to make me start drinking again.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 pmLincoln,
I’ve been drinking since Obama 3:16. I think my liver is trying to take out a contract on him as I type this.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:34 pmAs a hillbilly, I resent that. RACIST!
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:42 pm…hillbilly, and a RACIST!
Don’t forget RACIST!
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:42 pmLincoln:
God’s honest truth. The reason for my silence was that my ideas for an appropriate response were running the gamut from (a) “You ignorant slut!” to (b) “Get out of my yard!” to (c) “Get out of my yard, you ignorant slut!”
Terrifying.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 pmYou know, um, and uh, well, um, uh uh, like you know, they say, um um, and uh, um, and uh, well, um, uh uh, like you know, they say, um um, and uh, um, and uh, well, um, uh uh, like you know, they say, um um, and uh, well, you know.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pmGood bye Republic.
Hello Democracy.
Hope the circus is fun.
You know, someone regarded as one of the most accomplished scientists ever spent more time studying the books of Daniel & Revelations than he did science and mathematics. I humbly beg y’all to take a peek.
Back to my Natty Light and and my endless search for kick ass beer goggles.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pmDavid Letterman did an awesome ‘Uh Count’ clip…Found it last night.Theres something about someone saying ‘uh’ every 2-3 words…like he’s MAKING IT UP,or doesnt know WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4Dw
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:21 pmMaggie has it all figured out….
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pmThe liberal double standard…applied to liberals. the black double standard…applied to blacks. Together they form the quadruple standard….applied only to Obama
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pmPost-election beer goggle removery.
(AKA what conservatives already know is going to instantly happen the second it’s over).
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm@toaster: LOL
@gd: You were charitable. I would have said all that and more, then chased after her with a baseball bat until I found her weenie Prius, at which point I would proceed to demonstrate what I these overrated girlie cars.
Sure, I would have spent a few days in jail as a result, but it’d be oh so worth it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 pmSomewhere, our online names are being listed on a database so when Obama is named “President of the World”, we’ll be sent to a re-education camp to learn about HOPE and CHANGE! LOL
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 pmThe Hope is she and her brethren will be too stoned to vote.
Yet…
No sh¡t.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmTo get back to the original point that Ms. Lucas made–which was that Obama was a liar because he claimed to be on a committee when in fact he was not—I must take issue and disagree. I doubt that he told a deliberate untruth. I suspect that if anything he barely remembers what Senate committees he IS a member of. He seems to have a habit of being too busy (perhaps because he’s polishing his halo or admiring himself in the mirror) to show up at such mundane affairs.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 pmOh hell.
I must say that the monster of all monsters is just stickin’ his toes in to test the water. I think there is someone coming that makes Barack Obama’s current global phenomenon look like a brutally scandalized yet fondly forgotten local celebrity.
Barack is a prototype that someone is watching very closely. That someone is watching how the world fawns before him. And taking notes.
Well, off to watch Scare Tactics on Sci-Fi. Damn if that wouldn’t be a great way to scare the fuck out of people who are on the fence re: Obama.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pmObama’s a sort of black avatar for racial reconciliation shtick apparently covers all gaffe’s, foolishness, lies etc.
/sarcasm
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 pmI’ve been kicking this around in my mind for the past several weeks. It’s my considered opinion that Barack Obama is nothing more than a fop: a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners. Dandy, coxcomb, popinjay, peacock, swell, dude.
This implies that there is “no there, there.” No substance, no ideology, no thought, no intellect.
Jeez, what an empty head and an empty suit. The possibility that this vapid twerp could be elected president of the United States makes me want to puke.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 pm. . . hurl, vomit, regurgitate, toss my cookies, leggo my eggo, ralf, barf, retch, spew, upchuck, heave, throw up — not just in my mouth and not just a little bit?
Yeah, me too.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 pmHi Rachel.
Do you have room for another category?
I’m really hung up on:
Obama = Hurdy Gurdy Man. So I am suggesting Hurdy Gurdy Man. There will be lots of Rachel Lucas essays regarding the Hurdy Gurdy Man over the next few months, so - there should be a slot for it.
Yeah. Pegging dogs with my big toe is probably what I should stick with, being a redneck Jacksonian hillbilly and all. Nonetheless, your insight regarding Obamessiah warrants it’s own category, whatever you name it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pmDo we have to pick on old Hurdy Gurdy “singing songs of love”? I always liked the guy
(yes, I am a squish).
How about The Music Man — cynical con-man full of fine promises but with neither the means nor the intent to fulfill them and all that — no? Maybe? Too ‘done’?
Edit: I guess Hurdy Gurdy was a pretty good example of meaningless drivel embraced by brainless hippies — but hey, I was eight! And I thought hurdy gurdies themselves were cool — Pater the librarian would never have let me like the song wothout at least knowing what a hurdy gurdy was :).
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 pmfelicity, don’t forget “talk on the porcelain phone” where one asks “Wanna buy a Bu-u-u-ICK?“
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 pmevvybuns,
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pmHaha! I almost went back and added “bow to the porcelain god,” but I figured it was someone else’s turn, being fairly well emptied by then ;P.
Well then. New genus and species. Klingon Bitterites. But we do know who’s gonna be ruling the tribe, soon, cuz the kindgom, family and phyllum are already totally owned.
That leaves class and order. Of which “the one who must not be middlenamed” (h/t to a RL commenter) has no concept of either.
Thanks, Tully!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:20 amI am actually partial, through collegiate matriarchal-type-assistant experience, to:
All in good fun/stupidity, of course.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:21 amOne time, when I was younger–OK, more than one time–I got drunk and was puking in the back yard. A couple of friends said I was praying to Mecca.
The father of the house said, “No, he’s not Muslim, he’s European. He keeps saying Eur-UPP! Eur-UPP!”
July 24th, 2008 at 3:06 amriding the porcelain bus
July 24th, 2008 at 6:16 ambarking at ants
blow chunks
chunder
fertilize the sidewalk
Rchl Lukis!
I just figured it out!
When Obama said the banking committee was “my committee,” he meant that they were “my boys, my men, my posse, my homeys.”
Just like you are “my girl, my woman, my lady.”
Mmmk?
Hopechange!
July 24th, 2008 at 7:22 amWhy is it when liberals get drunk and elect some assclown everyone else gets the hangover?
Bitterly clinging to my guns as I await the impending doom of November…….
July 24th, 2008 at 7:47 amYesterday, Rush Limbaugh called Obama a “glittering jewel of colossal ignorance” which I think sums Obama up pretty nicely.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:33 amOh lordy, the things I miss by actually being at work! I come back after the Day of Chaos to find out that Obama’s campaigners actually think he’s so brilliant that the human mind can’t possibly comprehend him, some old singer is Coming to Get Us, and I’ve apparently missed a Bacchanalian yak sacrifice.
I’m not sure whether I should go buy a gun so I can cling bitterly to it, or go on to invent a time machine so I can go back to yesterday when all the chaos was just, you know, ordinary work stuff and not the extra-scary version in which ordinary college girls drop into the Twilight Zone and come back proclaiming that Obama’s brilliance transcends human understanding.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:13 amOh, dear! So now he not only poops marshmallows and farts rainbows, his jewels glitter? We have no hope to hope for but hope itself!
14k,
July 24th, 2008 at 9:32 amNice homage to Linnaeus! (Drat those DNA-decoding, molecular biologists, busily invalidating my ejumacashun!)
Sorry. Fraking slow satellite.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:57 amNotice this was done in 2007. He’s had another year to prevaricate.
“I lie, therefore I am.”
“A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.”
July 24th, 2008 at 9:57 am~ G. Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels), Propaganda officer for Adolf Hitler
When you’re a Democrat, IGNORANCE IZ SMARTZ
Remember back in the 90’s this was the party whose president didn’t understand the meaning of “is”, nor that a blowjob is a form of sexual intercourse.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:01 amOFF TOPIC, but:
Did you guys notice the COMMENT RULES section our hostess recently added? This, my friends, is a thing of beauty. At rachellucas.com, even the disclaimers are entertaining.
Rachel,
July 24th, 2008 at 10:15 amBe my kept woman? : )
You know, he’s “present” so often without actually doing anything, it’s entirely likely that he DOESN’T know what committees he serves on.
That actually may be worse than the fib theory.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:21 amObama’s campaign reminds me more and more of the Children’s Crusade of A.D. 1212. A young and charismatic shepherd boy by the name of Steven proclaimed that God had charged him with leading Europe’s children to the gates of Jerusalem. Thousands of innocents answered the call and marched to Marseilles where they boarded ships. The fleet disappeared and the children were never heard from again. Years later it was revealed that the flotilla had been wrecked by a storm. The survivors were picked up by Muslim slavers in a pre-arranged deal with the crusade’s leaders. The similarities to Obama’s campaign are . . . kinda creepy, no?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:25 amOff topic:
I don’t think enough people saw this in the butthole thread:
marla sez, in a suggestion to Sunny to minimize the target size for Rachel’s toe:
Words to live by, people. Words to live by.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:25 amAnd Darleen over at Protein Wisdom gives us the Obamaniac Quote of The Day
July 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am~Paules,
Oy!
Please, God, let there be enough sentient beings in this country to save us!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:45 amHere’s a little reminder for Barry, just in case he forgets again what committee he actualy IS on.
Oh, and it has his ACTUAL title, too. And the ACTUAL name of the ACTUAL country and state he is from. Maybe he needs to visit his own site, on occasion. Sheesh.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:54 amfrom sully’s comment at the top of the thread:
“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” –Barack Obama in The Audacity of Hope
that, ya’ll is the most accurate and scary quote you’ll ever see from bo…
God help us if those stripey people of whence he speaks get to pull the strings on this malleable little marionette in the oval office…
jtc
July 24th, 2008 at 11:06 am….my boo?
Pep
July 24th, 2008 at 11:43 amThat seems to pretty much a legend. Unfortunately Obama’s campaign is reality, despite his living in a fantasy world.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:14 pmBuzzion, it’s not a legend.
http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/children.html
July 24th, 2008 at 12:22 pmThis is driving me crazy, but I can’t seem to get it right. Oh well.
EDIT: Thanks, Tully. That’ll do!
July 24th, 2008 at 12:30 pmPawnbroker, I realize that’s just a typo, but please oh please oh PRETTY PLEASE do NOT get me confused with Andrew Sullivan!
Unless you can get me his paychecks, in which case I’m quite willing to play him on the internet. Or on TV. Even the lecture circuit. As long as I don’t have to be, like, you know, actually gay.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
(14 K: hint hint)
July 24th, 2008 at 12:47 pmTully,
I thought he had you confused with the Huguenot statesman :).
Anyhow, having just heard excerpts of BO in Berlin, and ignoring the painfully shameless ripoff of the Gipper, am I the only one who’s reminded of this?
July 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pmWachel,
I would say the following about you:
You are a racist. And a bigot. And a homophobe. And sexist. And ignorant. And a monkey. And a redneck. And an uneducated fool. And a corporate tool. And… and…
But, like I said, I would say that. But it would be redundant (in the eyes of the left). After all, all I really have to say is that you aren’t a democrat. By simply saying that, I can save a lot of words and skip all the obviously implied other stuff.
See how simple this is?
[/sarcasm]
July 24th, 2008 at 1:01 pmFelicity, ever since the Clinton era brought in the multiple-split-screen-screaming-heads thing, I have avoided broadcast news as best as possible save for choice bites. Life’s too short! I’ll read the transcript when I get a chance. (Gawd Bless teh Interwebbies.)
But..hee hee. Snicker.
(And 14 K? Lovely. Just lovely! On multiple levels, even….)
July 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pmwell, i sure sullied myself with that little typo, didn’t i?
sorry, tully…
jtc
July 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pmHey, pawnbroker, if you can get me the paychecks to go with it I am ALL in favor!
Wuth just that one little caveat, of course.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:40 pmYeah… That’s apparently one of the more fantastical recountings of the Children’s Crusade. Some basis in history but not that accurate.
I’ve even got my doubts about this version being fully accurate:
July 24th, 2008 at 1:43 pmWe actually don’t even have reception here in the clearcut! I was listening to the bits that Rush decided to air :), streaming WABC — heh!
July 24th, 2008 at 2:01 pmI also heard the 7 minutes of “uh’s” and “um’s” on Rush’s show. If he would’ve included the “nyo’s” (I assume it’s an abbreviation for “you know”), it would’ve gone on another 3 or 4 minutes. If you’ve ever um wondered why um the guy dint nyo take that uh law degree of his nyo and go out and uh get rich, nyo, um, like, nyo, you probably um dint um nyo have to uh wonder long. Nyo?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:14 pmI want a new name. I might not like it. But it’ll probably be better than the one I have been using. Hell, I will have been given a name by none other than Rachel Lucas, so, fuck it. I’m posting a comment as “ANONYMOUS”.
[heh - RL]
July 24th, 2008 at 2:23 pmBuzzion,
I’ll stand by my source. For medieval history it’s hard to do better than Steven Runciman.
My point, however, is that Obama is cynically taking advantage of youthful idealism. When I read the comments of his supporters, it reminds me of a children’s crusade for its simplistic reasoning, ideological zeal and unquestioning faith. The comparison, I think, is accurate.
I haven’t decided yet if Obama is merely a puppet with someone behind him pulling the strings, or an arrogant, overreaching fool. Nor do I know yet for sure if he’s a leftist ideologue, or an amoral opportunist with no core beliefs at all. Could be either. Whatever he really is, I am convinced he’s a user, in the manner of those who used the Children’s Crusade, be it history or merely a folktale.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm“Pied Piper of Hamlin“, ~Paules.
No matter what, this story is awfully Grimm.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pmI don’t know. His writing style (at least in the excerpt you provided) seems very flamboyant and grandiose. And grandiosity in a history text is a tell-tale sign that the writer might be stretching the truth. Also, I can’t think of any particular reason to doubt Buzzion’s source (though it does have somewhat the same problem).
Seems like a toss-up to me.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pmExcept his research into is approximately 50 years old. And research into it didn’t stop with the publishing of his source. I mean don’t you think that the way that was written is in an awfully dramatic way of storytelling as opposed to historic recitation?
I don’t have any complaint about what you think of Obama, just the attempted metaphor. I think 14 Karat found a better one.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:10 pmlooking forward to the day when obama addresses a military group.
“…and then, uhhhhhhh, after i won my SECOND medal of….ummmm…….honor, i quit the SEALs because i decided they were uhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhh bunch of uhhhhhhh candyasses. then, like our first president, john ahhhhhhh hancock - who was also a superhero living in los ummmmmm angeles - i joined the uhhhhhhhh beta force. DELTA! i mean i joined the DELTA ummmmmmmm force.”
July 24th, 2008 at 3:16 pmBrooke is a closet Republican. Turn to the light NOW!!!
July 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pmNow, can one be a redneck AND a hillbilly? Do they describe distinct demographics or are they one and the same?
July 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pmOne is a subset of the other.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:06 pmWas bo ever married to Morgan Fairchild?
July 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pmHere’s a really good definition of redneck, hillbilly and good ol’ boy.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:42 pmShort version: Rednecks are Southerners who were impoverished by the Civil War. Hillbillies are rednecks who live in the mountains.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:44 pmccs -
Don’t talk about my wife, Morgan Fairchild. Whom I have slept with. And seen naked.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:45 pmHere’s one that’ll send the guys my age straight to their bunks.
Probably not, but they sure would make a hot couple, right? : )
I’m straight … but … wow. And I ain’t wearing any beer goggles, either!! Sorry — I see “bo” and it has to be the devine Ms. Derek, not this “bho” idjit.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pmDid any of the other guys see the picture 14 Karat posted and think ’sandwich’? Or is it just me?
July 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pmThere should be a predetermined list of names like we do with hurricanes.
“The next anonymous asshole’s name will be … Flounder.”
July 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pmI got what I asked for.
I feel like a knight or something. I dunno. I definitely have issues.
At any rate, thanks.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pmI received this in e-mail today. Alas, I don’t know who the author is …
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief and Leader of the Free World, and ready to fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Ronald Reagan. 143 days.
We keep leftovers in the refrigerator longer than that.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pmGood link (especially for me — great-granddaughter of another “Spotsy dirt farmer” — heh!)! Only quibble I would have is the inclusion of Mary Baldwin in the list of schools for Belles — the MB girls have acquired a bit of a reputation lately, and it’s, ummm, not for being flirty, at least not with men!
Sorry, mighty, but you’re a bit off. I may live in Central Va now, but The Boss and I lived in Blacksburg for seven years and the Bristol area for a little over four (where our address was McCall’s Gap Rd.
— just over the hill from Mendota and the Carter Family Fold). We had some neighbors who were definitely white trash, and some who were Rednecks, but the Hillbilly is a different man altogether — a dying breed, actually! — neither ignorant nor uneducated, but somehow suspended in a time warp.
I guess the two are related in their Scots-Irish descent, but I’d call them two distinct subsets of that group.
As I said once on another thread, using music as metaphor, think ‘Old Time’ vs ‘Country.’
July 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pmall a matter of perspective, I guess.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:17 amMy dear wife, the Yeller (yeah she does yell at me at times) Rose from Texas, uses Good Ol’ Boy as a pejorative … since she’s an avid believer in glass ceilings and fables about the Man holding poor li’l women down. Heh.
Unfortunately, knowing her history pre-marriage-to-me … there certainly is some truth to her view, at least in South Texas.
In my experience, I don’t agree (much) with a single one of the definitions on the link 14K provided.
Since hillbilly originally referred to those living in the Ozarks and Blue Ridge areas, farming on hardscrabble tracts … most would be rednecks. However, rednecks could hail from anywhere … the red neck coming from the sun beating down on that area not shaded by the hat nor the collar … but they’d be outdoor workers … farmhands, cowboys, etc.
Nowadays, none of the historical meanings seem to apply … redneck and hillbilly are terms applied by liberals who dislike anyone with an opinion based on fact … and proudly worn by those who despise PC crap and metrosexuals (and the women they ride in on).
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his latest gaffe… canadians… what canadians?
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July 25th, 2008 at 10:56 amHeh. Someone called my wife that once, after seeing me without a shirt (gorillahumper just doesn’t sound as funny).
I’m not sure about the term “Beer Goggles” being strong enough for the fawning adoration that the Left is heaping on the Obamessiah, though. A combination of Absinthe and Tequila is more like it, but that doesn’t sound as good, either.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:55 amOops! That might have sounded as if I were contrasting them with Rednecks, as if Rednecks were “uneducated?” — Gagh! — far from it, as y’all well know!
Nope, nope, nope — I was attempting to contrast the real McCoy with the Hollywood/Yankee/liberal stereotype of a Hillbilly — my bad!!!
Here’s a link I actually had moldering in my favorites that gives some Scottish historical background — and puts the lie to the old myth about sunburn, I’m afraid — sorry, pete in Midland!
July 25th, 2008 at 7:07 pmIn fairness, I was using a much more generalized and historical definition.
Personally I subscribe to Jeff Foxworthy’s version where “redneck” is defined as “a glorious absence of sophistication”.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pmmighty,
I’m partial to Jerry Clower
– though I do love Foxworthy, too!
July 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pmWhy choose? I believe both to be true. Arrogance is often a shield for incompetence. I also believe he wasn’t lying when he thought it was his committee - after all, he’s barely been in the Senate long enough to learn where the bathrooms are, so it’s no surprise if he can’t find his way to the right classroom.
And watch for a bill sponsored by the Dems to allow Euro-peons to vote here in November.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:13 amPersonally I subscribe to Jeff Foxworthy’s version where “redneck” is defined as “a glorious absence of sophistication”.
I’m not lacking in sophistication, I’m lacking in the pretension required to act like it means all that much.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:25 amSeriously! Should Obama really be allowed to graduate?
Hmmmmm, let’s see. . .
- Obama was in the Senate for two years prior to announcing his campaign.
- During that two years, he logged 143 days of attendance in the Senate.
- The U.S. Senate meets about 170 days per year — so 340 in two.
- (340-143)/340 = 0.56 or about 56% absenteeism???
From the Illinois School Code:
July 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pm