I know this isn't a movie, but I for one was really upset when Mrs. G and the gang took the Facts of Life into that snack shop or whatever. It was never the same. :(
Yeah, that's overstatement for sure, Shelby. But statements like these
NAME REDACTEDWell, it's over... bye bye disposable income... BOOOO OBAMA!! This is a bad day for America. Call me is 6 months and tell me who you WISH you'd voted for.
NAME REDACTED has succumb to the fact that he is going to pay more taxes. GET A JOB PEOPLE!!!!
read more like koolaid that reality, esp coming from a 20-something who presumably isn't clearing $250+Gs a year. (And even if they were, would they really call it "disposable income"?)
Damn, Billy-you can certainly put words down. I miss your writings here. This was worth the wait though. I have yet to read such a sublime consideration of what happened last night as yours.
Misty, even if the next four years have little but disappointment in store-despite or even bc of Obama-I will be grateful for having a leader capable of this:
"When I visited South Africa a few years ago," Obama said in a video message to Mandela in July. "I had a chance to go to Robben Island and stand in your cell, and I reflected on your courage, your foresight and conviction, and on your fundamental belief that we do not have to accept the world as it is; that we can remake the world as it should be."
"Some Democrats have warned that (Rahm) Emanuel's take-no-prisoners style could hurt Obama. But the president-elect wants to move fast to push his legislative agenda through the Democratic-controlled Congress - and Emanuel knows the Hill and power politics as well as anyone in town. ( http://www.politico.com/news/stories/... )
Thanks Chris-this is good stuff. Had Obama somehow lost, these are the kinds of thoughts I would have had, no doubt. So I can relate, sorta... I can even kind of relate to being apprehensive about the next 4 years. But it's hard to believe anyone in their 20s would be so pro-GOP. They had to be paying more attention to politics via Fox, Rush, etc. than to the reality of the last 8 years. Some of these comments sound like regurgitated dittohead-speak anyway.
That said, Bill I completely agree. How Obama handles this unknown ...
> What kind of decision maker and leader Mr. Obama will be remains unclear even to many of his supporters. Will he be willing to use his political capital and act boldly, or will he move cautiously and risk being paralyzed by competing demands from within his own party? His performance under the harsh lights of the campaign trail suggests a figure with remarkable coolness and confidence under enormous pressure, yet also one who rarely veers off the methodical path he lays out. < (from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/... )
... will determine the course of his presidency and our country.
And it /is/ and unknown with him. I think the election shows that most of us were pretty sure how McCain would have handled things.
I think for your average Joe Six Pack Merican, Barack Hussein was elected /despite/ his race. Same as Hillary would have been despite her gender. No doubt many people voted for him same as many voted for McCain bc Palin is sexay, but I don't think that was the difference-maker in the election.
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BRIMLEY!!
November 18, 2008 at 4:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Whoop Dee Doo! -- 11/15/08 at La Esquina
WOW,, this would seem to be the cure for it all. what a world, what a world
November 14, 2008 at 11:59 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Top 10 Movies That Jumped the Shark
I know this isn't a movie, but I for one was really upset when Mrs. G and the gang took the Facts of Life into that snack shop or whatever. It was never the same. :(
November 13, 2008 at 12:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bitterness on Display
Yeah, that's overstatement for sure, Shelby. But statements like these
NAME REDACTEDWell, it's over... bye bye disposable income... BOOOO OBAMA!! This is a bad day for America. Call me is 6 months and tell me who you WISH you'd voted for.
NAME REDACTED has succumb to the fact that he is going to pay more taxes. GET A JOB PEOPLE!!!!
read more like koolaid that reality, esp coming from a 20-something who presumably isn't clearing $250+Gs a year. (And even if they were, would they really call it "disposable income"?)
But really that's all beside the point: http://theonion.com/content/video/end...
November 5, 2008 at 2:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
The Sight of Bridges and Balloons
Damn, Billy-you can certainly put words down. I miss your writings here. This was worth the wait though. I have yet to read such a sublime consideration of what happened last night as yours.
Heh...and I just got done reading this http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campai...
Misty, even if the next four years have little but disappointment in store-despite or even bc of Obama-I will be grateful for having a leader capable of this:
"When I visited South Africa a few years ago," Obama said in a video message to Mandela in July. "I had a chance to go to Robben Island and stand in your cell, and I reflected on your courage, your foresight and conviction, and on your fundamental belief that we do not have to accept the world as it is; that we can remake the world as it should be."
November 5, 2008 at 2:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Election Thoughts
This:
"Some Democrats have warned that (Rahm) Emanuel's take-no-prisoners style could hurt Obama. But the president-elect wants to move fast to push his legislative agenda through the Democratic-controlled Congress - and Emanuel knows the Hill and power politics as well as anyone in town. ( http://www.politico.com/news/stories/... )
...is promising.
November 5, 2008 at 1:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bitterness on Display
Thanks Chris-this is good stuff. Had Obama somehow lost, these are the kinds of thoughts I would have had, no doubt. So I can relate, sorta... I can even kind of relate to being apprehensive about the next 4 years. But it's hard to believe anyone in their 20s would be so pro-GOP. They had to be paying more attention to politics via Fox, Rush, etc. than to the reality of the last 8 years. Some of these comments sound like regurgitated dittohead-speak anyway.
November 5, 2008 at 1:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Election Thoughts
That said, Bill I completely agree. How Obama handles this unknown ...
>
What kind of decision maker and leader Mr. Obama will be remains unclear even to many of his supporters. Will he be willing to use his political capital and act boldly, or will he move cautiously and risk being paralyzed by competing demands from within his own party? His performance under the harsh lights of the campaign trail suggests a figure with remarkable coolness and confidence under enormous pressure, yet also one who rarely veers off the methodical path he lays out.
<
(from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/... )
... will determine the course of his presidency and our country.
And it /is/ and unknown with him. I think the election shows that most of us were pretty sure how McCain would have handled things.
November 5, 2008 at 12:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Election Thoughts
I think for your average Joe Six Pack Merican, Barack Hussein was elected /despite/ his race. Same as Hillary would have been despite her gender. No doubt many people voted for him same as many voted for McCain bc Palin is sexay, but I don't think that was the difference-maker in the election.
November 5, 2008 at 12:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Synchronicity
http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/11/...
Argues that the difference in this election is "Bottom-up and Broadband" vs 2004 when GOP top-down money and talk radio still wielded the most power.
November 4, 2008 at 12:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )