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2010-06-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Beavis 2010-06-19 08:20|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 "I fired off a speech
But the British kept a-spillin'
Twice as many barrels as there was a month ago,
I fired off a speech
But the British kept a-spillin'
Up the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico . . ."

Obama's Willie Johnny Horton moment.

Posted by ed 2010-06-19 09:41|| 2010-06-19 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Arggh. ~~Willie~~.

Posted by ed 2010-06-19 09:42|| 2010-06-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3
Dissappointing? Not to me. He's actually exceeding my expectations. I had no idea he'd be this terrible.

ONE TERM!

Posted by Parabellum 2010-06-19 10:06|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-06-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 well, what did we expect with an Affirmative Action President? Ask yourselves, if there were an Affirmative Action Yellow Pages, would you ever go there? America did and this is what we got.

Posted by hammerhead 2010-06-19 10:29|| 2010-06-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 youtube context for the younger readers

Posted by 3dc 2010-06-19 12:01|| 2010-06-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#6 and if somebody want's the background music without words - here's the Boston Pops and Chet Atkins playing it.

Posted by 3dc 2010-06-19 12:14|| 2010-06-19 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's version

Posted by 3dc 2010-06-19 12:19|| 2010-06-19 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope some day to see an Obama speech drowned out by his audience using vuvuzelas.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-19 12:28|| 2010-06-19 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 So what? He always disappoints. What would have been startling would have been if he hadnt disappointed. His eve-of-election rally for Martha Coakley disappointed the Massachusetts electorate so much they gave Ted Kennedys seat to a Republican. His speech for Chicagos Olympic bid disappointed the Oslo committee so much they gave the games to Pyonyang, or Ouagadougou, or any city offering to build a stadium with electrical outlets incompatible with Obamas prompter. Be honest, guys, his inaugural address disappointed, too, didnt it? Oh, in those days you still did your best to make the case for it. He carries us from meditative bead to meditative bead, and invites us to contemplate, wrote Stanley Fish in the New York Times. There is a technical term for this kind of writing parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating . . . the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.

Gotcha. To a fool, His Majestys new clothes appear absolutely invisible. But, to a wise man, the placing of buttons and pockets without indicating the relation of co-ordination is a fascinating exercise in parataxical couture.

And so Obama bounded out to knock em dead with another chorus of Ill be down to get you in a parataxis, honey, only to find himself pelted with dead fish rather than Stanley Fish.

I love it when Mark Steyn gets out his long knives and starts carving.

Posted by Mike 2010-06-19 13:54|| 2010-06-19 13:54|| Front Page Top

#10 It Takes a Spillage.

I still like my version - It takes a pillage.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-06-19 15:57|| 2010-06-19 15:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Disagree on one point.
Obama is not "mediocre".
He's a no-show.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-06-19 16:08|| 2010-06-19 16:08|| Front Page Top

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