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Posted by evariste on Dec 14, 2007 1:20 am

48 comments, latest by Dances With Typos at 10:09 am 11/23

#1 evariste at 11:39 am on Dec 14, 2007

Well, I thought it was damn funny. If he keeps this up, he's gonna get the nomination.

#2 solus rex at 11:44 am on Dec 14, 2007

But not the presidency.

#3 evariste at 11:48 am on Dec 14, 2007

#2 solus rex
But not the presidency.

He's like a defective tootsie pop, a delicious exterior but with a missing tootsie roll center.

#4 Frank IBC at 11:53 am on Dec 14, 2007

If he's smart, he'll run in the next gubernatorial election in Illinois. And after he's completed at least one term as governor, THEN run for president.

#5 evariste at 11:55 am on Dec 14, 2007

#4 Frank IBC
If he's smart, he'll run in the next gubernatorial election in Illinois. And after he's completed at least one term as governor, THEN run for president.

Throwing him in the Oval Office would be like throwing a baby in a shark tank.

#6 Frank IBC at 11:56 am on Dec 14, 2007

I think he has lots of potential.

But he's just not ready this year.

#7 solus rex at 12:02 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I think he has lots of potential.


Frighteningly enough.

#8 evariste at 2:02 pm on Dec 14, 2007

A reader writes Sully:

I was undecided up to now, but forty seconds of YouTube has decided me: There's a sword at Obama's throat. Hillary grabs the sword and brandishes it, gloating. Obama reaches out, takes the sword from her hand, and runs her through. What an aphoristic moment. Or as the YouTube commenters put it, PWNED.
In the larger context, this was a grievous unforced error on Hillary's part. In my eyes, her crowing reaction damages her as much as Obama's comeback benefits him. All she needed to do was listen politely as Obama squirmed, and the moment was hers. Instead, she reacted like a comic book supervillain and handed a superhero moment to Obama. I don't know who's got an exact count, but I suspect her team this season has racked up the most errors, both forced and unforced. In sport, that has a lot of significance. In politics, I think it's about to.

#9 Jourdan at 2:12 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I still stand by my earlier prediction that none of the clowns running for President circa Sept 07 will ever be in the Oval Office.

#10 evariste at 2:13 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Bloomberg, then?

#11 Frank IBC at 2:15 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I wonder how many of the folks who vote for Ron Paul over at ToP are actually Ron Paul supporters.

#12 Miss Pitusa at 2:16 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#3 evariste

He's like a defective tootsie pop with a missing tootsie roll center.

Kind of like the litterbox when the kitties are on vacation.

#13 solus rex at 2:17 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I was surprised to see Alan Keyes in there, again.

#14 solus rex at 2:19 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Not in the litterbox, obviously, in the Republican lineup. However small the distinction may be.

#15 Frank IBC at 2:19 pm on Dec 14, 2007

LOL!

#16 Frank IBC at 2:20 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#9 Jourdan
I still stand by my earlier prediction that none of the clowns running for President circa Sept 07 will ever be in the Oval Office.

What could possibly be worse than those clowns...

#17 Frank IBC at 2:21 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Shouldn't he have fired his hairdresser at least five years ago?

#18 bigel at 2:49 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#1 evariste
Well, I thought it was damn funny. If he keeps this up, he's gonna get the nomination.

I thought you couldn't stand him; and you knew of him as a state Senator. Didn't you say he was way too far left for you?

#19 evariste at 2:58 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#18 bigel


I thought you couldn't stand him; and you knew of him as a state Senator. Didn't you say he was way too far left for you?

Are you just making shit up based on assumptions again? I had no idea he even existed until he ran for election to the federal Senate. When did I say he was "way too far left for" me? And why would disagreeing with his politics mean I couldn't laugh at him doing something funny, or mean that I couldn't predict he'll get the nomination if he keeps it up?

#20 bigel at 3:02 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#19 evariste

Are you just making shit up based on assumptions again? I had no idea he even existed until he ran for election to the federal Senate. When did I say he was "way too far left for" me? And why would disagreeing with his politics mean I couldn't laugh at him doing something funny, or mean that I couldn't predict he'll get the nomination if he keeps it up?

Ev,

I don't want to dig up through posts 2-3 years back, but I very much remember you attacking him for being too far left. Besides, he represented a Chicago district and you live in the Metro area, so you certainly could have read about him in the news or in a local newscast.

#21 evariste at 3:06 pm on Dec 14, 2007

OK, bigel, you're right. Despite the fact that I habitually completely ignore state politics and politicians as incredibly boring. Obviously I'm too addled to remember my own opinions of Obama, which I apparently held very strongly 2-3 years back. Thank you for letting me know what my opinions used to be. I seem to have woken up with an erased memory.

#22 evariste at 3:10 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#14 evariste

I love Obama. He makes my enormous, horrifying ears look dainty and refined.

#23 Jourdan at 3:11 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Frank, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!

Give that man a cee-gar!

Ladeez and genteelpersons..I give you the next POTUS....ALGORE!

#24 evariste at 3:13 pm on Dec 14, 2007

SRSLY? No way.

#25 solus rex after dark at 3:19 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I think he's too much of a joke to have any traction now.

#26 Jourdan at 3:21 pm on Dec 14, 2007

A joke to you and me and Ev, perhaps.

To most of America he's a Nobel prize winner, lover of the Earth and the guy we probably shoulda went with and maybe we should now....

#27 evariste at 3:24 pm on Dec 14, 2007

God, I hope Kevin's wrong about this.

My take? Bloomberg is a way more plausible dark horse than the Gorebot, who is rather enjoying his role as a secular saint. Plus, I just can't take Al seriously as a candidate, no matter how many more chins he grows.

#28 solus rex after dark at 3:24 pm on Dec 14, 2007

I dunno. As one indicator, SNL is pretty mainstream, and their ridicule is more or less along the lines of ours (while they tenderly and reverently kiss Obama's ass).

the guy we probably shoulda went with


Tell you the truth, I tend to feel the same way. But now is not then.

#29 solus rex after dark at 3:31 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Bush's perspicacity and aptitude were no less obvious in 2000 than they have become since.

#30 Aridog at 4:00 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#29 solus rex after dark
Bush's perspicacity and aptitude were no less obvious in 2000 than they have become since.

No matter. Against Gore he was a shinning knight, and against Kerry, the last frantic grasp at sanity.

Had Kerry been elected I would have given serious thought to emigration, or at a minimum a retreat to a far moutain redoubt. I've found one of those if it comes that...perhaps my very own Ruby Ridge. The very idea a lying traitor poser self-centered pseudo hippie from the late 60's-early 70's could achieve the Presidency would have brought Carter's malfeasance to total fruition.

It is against federal law for me to say what I'd like done to Kerry and all of his fellow travelers. I didn't think it was possible to find a candidate who'd make Gore look good, by comparison, but the DNC did it! Gore's a agenda-bot, but Kerry's a fecal splotch on the fabric of America.

Given the above, from my perspective, Kevin's prognostication is quite possible, stupendously foolish as it might be overall.

#31 Aridog at 4:04 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#23 Jourdan
Frank, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!

Give that man a cee-gar!

Ladeez and genteelpersons..I give you the next POTUS....ALGORE!

Did I mention I am now feverishly stabbing a Kevin doll with long hat pins? ;-)

#32 solus rex after dark at 4:06 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Against Gore he was a shinning knight

I didn't see it that way. And in retrospect, still don't.

#33 evariste at 4:06 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#31 Aridog

Did I mention I am now feverishly stabbing a Kevin doll with long hat pins? ;-)

Hey, man, don't stab the messenger's voodoo doll!

#34 solus rex after dark at 4:30 pm on Dec 14, 2007

As someone put it back then, "Gore is a student who, being assigned a 6-page paper, writes a 10-page paper he copied from the encyclopedia, and hopes the professor doesn't notice. Bush writes a 4 1/2-page double-spaced with 2-inch margins one, and hopes the professor doesn't notice."

#35 Aridog at 5:00 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#32 solus rex after dark

Against Gore he was a shinning knight

I didn't see it that way. And in retrospect, still don't.

You just didn't have enough experience with the trail of tears Gore left behind. The man is a total fraud. Bushy stone drunk is better, and I don't particularly like him either...but Gore, I feel to vomit.

That's my complaint...20 years plus of a choice between vomit, hurl or homicidal thoughts.

#36 solus rex after dark at 5:04 pm on Dec 14, 2007

You just didn't have enough experience with the trail of tears Gore left behind.

That could be it.

#37 Aridog at 5:11 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#36 solus rex after dark

You just didn't have enough experience with the trail of tears Gore left behind.

That could be it.

It is I assure you. His impact on OMB'c Circular A-76 is still being felt, even today, and costing taxpayers more money not less every day. He is the senior enabler of process over product in government.

#38 Dances With Typos at 5:27 pm on Dec 14, 2007

Hmm, in the end, will it come down to Al Gore vs Newt Gingrich?

There was some interesting commentary on NPR, tonight, amazingly enough from an NYT columnist, who said he wished Gingrich was in simply because there would be some hard policy out there, instead of platitudes.

#39 solus rex after dark at 5:36 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#10 evariste
Bloomberg, then?

Ugh.

#40 evariste at 5:41 pm on Dec 14, 2007

#39 solus rex after dark

I definitely won't say I like the idea...but he does keep making noises about jumping in. He should shut up and sit down.

#41 SoShallItBeWritten at 12:31 am on Dec 15, 2007

#2 solus rex
But not the presidency.

Obama has good judgement. That far outways experience. He will make a fine president.

#42 evariste at 12:34 am on Dec 15, 2007

I hope his judgment outways your bad spelling.

#43 Aridog at 3:29 am on Dec 15, 2007

#41 SoShallItBeWritten

Obama has good judgement. That far outways experience. He will make a fine president.

And you base your assessment of Obama's judgement on what specific demonstrtions of same?

Not that it matters much, since until we clean up Congress, and demand performance not posturing from it, who is President is immaterial for the most part.

#44 Jefe at 4:01 am on Dec 15, 2007

#42 evariste
I hope his judgment outways your bad spelling.
No weigh!

#45 Aridog at 4:06 am on Dec 15, 2007

Way!

#46 Jefe at 4:09 am on Dec 15, 2007

No whey!

#47 ams at 9:58 am on Nov 23, 2008

this is tight. look at you fools now!

#48 Dances With Typos at 10:09 am on Nov 23, 2008

#47 ams

this is tight. look at you fools now!

Yeah, we committed the unpardonable sin of underestimating the stupidity of the American voter.

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