Speech… 29 August 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems, The Battle for New Orleans.trackback
I linked to this in the last thread, an illustrated children’s book on, what else?, what Mama Democrats do, having found it at SMBIVA, one of several great posts in a row from Al Schumann… infantilization being the theme…
We’re infantilized all right. (I like this illustration a lot, as well.)
Speech in New Orleans today…. then, wheels up! Back to the Vegetable Patch on Penn Ave, then an address to the nation on Tuesday.
A busy social calendar. Speechmaking is hard work.
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Ummm…My Pet Goat, anyone?
“I love you back!!”….
Follow-up book: Why Mama’s Going to the Food Bank
Subtitle: No, it Doesn’t Rhyme But Mama’s Busy Looking for a Damn Job and Doesn’t Have Time for the Cutesy Shit Anymore
But he loves you!! Don’t Mama love him?
Excuse my complete and utter lack of sense of humor (maybe comes with age) I’m still scratching my head. Is that website a satire?
Sadly, no.
No it’s for real…
The follow up is called, “Obama says because Mama’s unemployed, she’s lazy. And some lipless guy on the teevee says she’s crazy.”
and of course Mama Obama says your mama’s so fat …
There is a “purchase” button, but I’d hate to be the fool that falls for that trap.
And just think: altogether, it is 24 pages!
piktur lurnin’ is hard werk
Oh Jeebus. Obama’s quoting from the Book of Job. (See? He’s not Muslim!)
I’m sure he got that as right as this biblical scholar got the Jeebus parts right.
I watched a bit of Beckapalooza on C-SPAN yesterday. My Dog – Religious Wingnuts ‘R Us. I needed Gravol after that.
As a Canadian, I continually wince at all of this “founding fathers” talk. I’ll bet you 98% of Canadians can’t name more than 2 of our “founding fathers” – because we don’t care; we’ve moved on. When you live so steeped in tradition, it can eventually become the stranglehold that keeps you stuck. And that’s so glaringly obvious in American culture.
the worse thing is that Americans are steeped in a mis-remembered tradition.
Milwaukee is overrun today with attendees to the American Legion convention. Everywhere I go it’s flags on hats and shirts and fluttering behind Harleys. Everyone “supports the troops” and is “proud to be an American” and so on and on and on. NO ONE remembers that going back to before this was one country, when it was 13 loosely allied separate putative countries, the Continental Congress refused to pay or adequately equip “our troops”. They refused to do it before, during or after EVERY war this country fought, with the possible partial exception of WW2. Younger troops have again and again attacked older troops demanding what they were promised, whether it was the attack on the Bonus Army or the mob that threated Congress itself after the Revolution. The Imperial Military chews up and spits and shits out people in uniform, and it does it to EVERY generation. No one chooses to remember or believe it. Fathers and grandfathers who were fucked over eagerly offer up their sons, mothers get all weepy over their broken and beaten children, and gawd forfend anybody say this is a bad idea.
It’s a country steeped in delusions masquerading as traditions. Makes me sick and sad.
It’s a country steeped in delusions masquerading as traditions.
Exactly – on all fronts: military, government, religious.
And when the major systems break down, nothing resembling any kind of actual change is tolerated. Change you can believe in is Change you must tolerate according to the powers that be.
That’s the thing, it never changes…. and turning on the mil is not exclusive to this country either… nor the mil turning on itself… nor government turning on the mil.
NOR the mil being turned on the people. Which is where we are headed in my opinion.
BTW, i would be so entertained if even one Democrat had the shriveling balls to tell that only one R voted for the GI Bill.
Which whatever one thinks of war, post war or the nationalist roots of fascism, did in fact fuel the middle class.
Glenn is so bad.. I also caught his “exclusive” interview with FNC today with Chris Wallace…
SO bad.
They discussed whether these tea party candidates who are being elected now will help Obama’s re-election on Tweety’s show this morning by scaring the independents. The consensus was “yes”. Really? I highly doubt it.
He also touted the new VA hospital. I caught an hour of Spike Lee’s documentary last nite and there’s a lot of opposition to trashing Charity Hospital and replacing it with this new “health center” a few blocks away (that would take up 27 city blocks and destroy numerous historic homes.)
He just loses it over the whole muslim thing. The reality of it s that back in 2007 in particular, his sister was much more open about their childhoods and their mother than Obby has ever been able to be.
Sometimes I get the feeling Obby is overly conflicted out of some hatred or resentment for his mother and her second husband.
The fella has issues… and god it is old and boring.
Queue another Leave Obama Alone! wreck-list diary.
Right. But it’s okay to talk about how much you LOVE him and how sexy he is without a shirt on. Those personal reactions are just hunky dory.
What’s wrong with this picture?
The Man has absolutely no connection to “the issues”.
Ooops. HTML cleanup in aisle 4.
so when I stop laughing let me get this straight… the diarist is worried about the need to comfort the masses… to properly message the confused?
Oh lordy!
He forgot one part of that equation: comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable.
These Vans Can See You Naked With Their Full-Body Scanners
From the Politico report on his drop in to NO…
hmmm… Business Insider read around the NYT the past couple of days… Several links embedded in the piece, including one to a Week in Review article that ts linked to…
OK Obby, bad news bears are gathering.
Read more: Link to Business Insider
This baby obviously sleeps way too much.
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