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Just A Quick Question

by John Cole|  March 16, 200811:26 am| 24 Comments

This post is in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

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Andrew Ferguson has a piece on Barack Obama at the Weekly Standard titled the Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama. I have to admit that in my current narcotic induced haze, I did not read the piece. I do, however, have a question:

Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled George Bush’s scrotum for eight years to ponder about the wit and wisdom of anything other than a tree stump?

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  1. 1.

    GSD

    March 16, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Do you think these conservapuds have an ounce of shame?

    What would make you think that?

    -GSD

  2. 2.

    demimondian

    March 16, 2008 at 11:32 am

    I have to admit that in my current narcotic induced haze, I did not read the piece.

    Categorized…”I read these morons so you don’t have to”.

    Um…yeah. Hey, John. Go take a nap.

  3. 3.

    jake

    March 16, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Narcotic induced haze might be the proper state to read Fergie’s offering (WARNING – Unplug your Irony-o-Meters):

    No one who’s wandered through an Obama rally and heard the war whoops and seen the cheerful, vacant gazes would come away thinking, “These are the smartest people ever.” I’m sorry, they just aren’t. What is unmistakable is the creepy kind of solipsism and the air of self-congratulation that clings to his campaign.

  4. 4.

    Ted

    March 16, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled George Bush’s scrotum for eight years to ponder about the wit and wisdom of anything other than a tree stump?

    No. That’s why no one but the cult members read that money-losing, neocon-welfare funded rag.

  5. 5.

    ThymeZone

    March 16, 2008 at 11:44 am

    No. SA2SQ vol 168.

    It’s only a matter of time now before myiq2xu and lukasiak are here to explain how the article is right on to point out that suggesting that the Washington power structure may not have your best interests at heart is … you know … just words. Rays of light, and words.

    As opposed to, say, invading a country for no good reason, or lying about a nuclear threat, or torture. Those are real things. Obama is all words. Ignore him. He doesn’t mean them.

    There, I just saved two commenters from having to write long, boring posts.

  6. 6.

    myiq2xu

    March 16, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Next week: The Poetry of George W. Bush

    “He who writes on bathroom walls . . .”

  7. 7.

    myiq2xu

    March 16, 2008 at 11:47 am

    There, I just saved two commenters from having to write long, boring posts.

    I agree with TZ!

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    March 16, 2008 at 11:51 am

    I agree with TZ!

    Cool. How shall we spend our newfound extra time? How about a game of Scrabulous?

  9. 9.

    Dennis - SGMM

    March 16, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    How about a game of Scrabulous?

    Sounds too much like scrofulous.

  10. 10.

    Ugh

    March 16, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled tea-bagged George Bush’s scrotum for eight years to ponder

    Fixed.

  11. 11.

    Rudi

    March 16, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    It’s not clear that Obama himself is even aware of this. His sincerity is self-evident and is one of the qualities that draw people to him, along with those eloquent hands, the grin, that voice as smooth and rich as molasses. His speeches are theatrical events, not intellectual excursions.

    After 7 years of the W chuckle and his lack of “intellectual excursions”, this idiot can’t question anyone.

  12. 12.

    Incertus

    March 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    I really am trying to come up with a superlative that would describe the vacancy that is that article, but I come up lacking. What’s so difficult to understand about the line “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Sure, it’s poetic, and a touch abstract, but not impossible to derive meaning from. And I love how the idea that it came from a radical poet (there are non-radical poets, but I doubt anyone is looking to Dana Gioia for political inspiration) somehow makes it a naughty phrase that should never be repeated by serious politicians.

  13. 13.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    March 16, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    It’s actually a pretty interesting article, for the insight on the partisan conservative brain circa 2008. It actually acknowledges that political speeches aren’t expected to be policy white papers, but it ridicules the speeches for not being white papers. Of course, the writer doesn’t bother to look into any of Obama’s actual proposals, because that would be too much like work for a movement conservative.

    Also in lieu of examining any actual policy issues, the article criticizes Obama for mentioning people with problems, because it means that he’s engaging in victimization. That’s a neat way to frame one’s indifference to the plight of, say, the uninsured.

    The neat part, though, is that it criticizes Obama for failing to specify which evil person is responsible for the various problems he identifies.

    Because today’s conservatives literally cannot conceive of beliefs based on anything other than hate and fear of enemies.

  14. 14.

    ThymeZone

    March 16, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    It’s actually a pretty interesting article, for the insight on the partisan conservative brain circa 2008.

    People who like that sort of thing will it the sort of thing they like.

    I just made that up.

    Please send for my booklet, “Lincoln: The Man, The Car.”

    I made that up too.

  15. 15.

    ThymeZone

    March 16, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    “will find it”

    Love the editable posts.

  16. 16.

    dslak

    March 16, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Because today’s conservatives literally cannot conceive of beliefs based on anything other than hate and fear of enemies.

    That’s one of the foundations of Neoconservative philosophy, actually. You find it in Carl Schmitt and, to a lesser extent, his protegé Leo Strauss.

  17. 17.

    ed

    March 16, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    The bar on speechmaking and rhetoric is currently very low. It will be a welcome change to have a president who doesn’t sound mentally challenged, let alone one who can inspire anything greater than bootlicking by a handful of the deluded and/or purchased.

    The presidential bully pulpit has not ceased to be useful just because the current occupant can’t figure out the operating instructions. Barack Obama has inspired millions with his ideas and soaring rhetoric and all the bleating from the right (and whatever the hell Hillary is) cannot nullify this fact.

  18. 18.

    D-Chance.

    March 16, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Incertus Says:

    What’s so difficult to understand about the line “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Sure, it’s poetic, and a touch abstract, but not impossible to derive meaning from. And I love how the idea that it came from a radical poet (there are non-radical poets, but I doubt anyone is looking to Dana Gioia for political inspiration) somehow makes it a naughty phrase that should never be repeated by serious politicians.

    Not just any poet but a left-wing-radical-feminist-bisexual poet.

    The article was Part I: “I don’t know what ‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ means (and neither do you)”, Part II: “Obama is a plagiarist”, and, Part III: “Obama supporters are Teh St00p1d!”. IOW, your typical Weekly Standard crap.

  19. 19.

    Asti

    March 16, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    Cool. How shall we spend our newfound extra time? How about a game of Scrabulous?

    I’m so glad to see you found a new friend TZ, and a way to spend your time together. How nice.

    NoIQ, watch how TZ adds up those words with the big letters, he cheats.

  20. 20.

    mark

    March 16, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled George Bush’s scrotum for eight years to ponder about the wit and wisdom of anything other than a tree stump?

    Whatever narcotics you’re on should be put in the D.C. water supply.

  21. 21.

    Helena Montana

    March 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Is it appropriate for the magazine that has delicately and lovingly fondled George Bush’s scrotum for eight years…

    Ick! Thanks a bunch for planting THAT image in my head.

  22. 22.

    jake

    March 16, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Whatever narcotics you’re on should be put in the D.C. water supply.

    Are you crazy? The unfilterable end-products of Marion Barry’s and GWB’s systems are already in the water supply. Add anything else and you’d get a city-wide O.D that would also take out parts of Northern Va.

  23. 23.

    bILL b

    March 16, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    God Dam America.

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