Saying all the things that I know you’ll like, making good conversation
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Corner Stone
Mmmm…Kylie Minogue’s posterior…
Corner Stone
Wandy Rodriguez has an .98 ERA since the All Star break
Corner Stone
And for some reason the Texans signed Leinart to a 1yr deal.
Not sure why, exactly. Maybe Andre Johnson likes catching passes from a leftie?
Corner Stone
I just don’t give a shit what Dave Weigel thinks about anything.
Corner Stone
Of course, the same is true for EDK. Just scroll past his writings.
DougJ
@Corner Stone:
He’s a crappy QB.
Corner Stone
Of course, I love you DougJ. I hope that goes without saying.
Corner Stone
@DougJ: Dammit, I was going to see if I could get to 10.
Corner Stone
But yeah, Leinart is pretty useless. Bad mechanics, bad body language. No one gives him any respect.
Corner Stone
Ha!
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Looking for an echo?
Corner Stone
There are a lot of hot women in CHI. I’d say second behind Houston but ahead of MIA, SF and NYC.
Bnut
@Corner Stone: It’s because DeMeco Ryans likes to hit Pac-10 pussies in the face during practice.
General Stuck
Shut the fuck up corner stone.
Just doing my part for making good conversation.
Corner Stone
@Bnut: Hmmm. Good call.
Bnut
Every time I see Corner Stone’s name I think of Veronica Corningstone, Christina Applegate’s character in Anchorman. I read your posts in her voice. It makes them even better.
Corner Stone
Just never really believed in Leinart, even at USC. He was soft and distracted. Had a wealth of badassery around him. Just not the real deal.
Corner Stone
@Bnut: “Take me to pleasure town.”
Bnut
@Corner Stone: As seems to be the trend with alot of the USC talent from the Pete Carrol era. I tended to believe those teams were a sum of their parts, instead of the mega star teams that ESPN made them out to be so that they would have better stories.
Corner Stone
@Bnut: They had some real deal stars, but Leinart wasn’t one of them.
And yeah, the fluffing of ESPN was ridiculous.
I remember them talking about how one of those squads could beat a Pro NFL team.
Bnut
@Corner Stone: And I remember seriously considering that they could beat the Lions, lol.
Comrade Mary
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Comrade Mary
Sorry, just had a Malcovich flash-back. Keep calm and carry on.
stuckinred
@Comrade Mary: You mean Marinovich?
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: That was one disturbing movie scene.
General Stuck
@Comrade Mary: My moniter iseth destoyed from laugh spray.
Corner Stone
@Comrade Mary: I enjoy the way that sounds. Thank you.
daveNYC
I’ll pimp a link to my trip photos.
jwb
@Corner Stone: Not that anyone should give him any respect.
jwb
@Corner Stone: Too much time on your hands today, huh?
Corner Stone
@jwb: Yeah. My son is in Galveston with his mom and I have work to do but a conf call tomorrow morning will probably change a few of the significant deliverables. It’s raining here as well.
Astros are winning at CHI and I’m waiting for the NCAA FB tonight.
I’m reading “Cognitive Surplus” by Clay Shirky, which is interesting, IMO, and I have a cello quartet playing on my stereo.
So…umm, yeah.
General Stuck
Put it under your pillow tonight and let osmosis do it’s thang. Couldn’t hurt to try.
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: Go Hokies!!!
demo woman
I just put on the President’s speech. He’s on fire. He said that some in Washington think they can treat him like a dog, and he’s going to fight back. Social Security will not be privatized under his watch.
Sir Nose'D
I’m going to the gym. I need to make sure I am in peak form the next time I am called upon to punch a hippie in the neck.
Mark S.
I don’t remember where I read it, but a couple weeks ago I read something that said McConnell might secretly be hoping some of the teabags like Paul and Angle lose because he might lose his leadership position to DeMint. Has anyone read anything about that?
jwb
@demo woman: Cool. I’m hoping the Dems have just been trying to slide through August before they start campaigning in earnest.
Omnes Omnibus
@demo woman: Is he speaking now?
jwb
@Mark S.: Not to mention which he’d have to deal with idiots like Angle and Paul in his caucus even if he did become majority leader.
demo woman
@Omnes Omnibus: yes..I’m watching on MSNBC online
demo woman
I wanted to answer Omnes quickly, but he is really attacking the repubs. It’s more than the party of no, it’s the party against small businesses, the party against schools, the party of no.
He pointed to Orange Man specifically.
General Stuck
@Mark S.: Doubtful, Mcconnell is a slime ball, but a slime ball who is good at building a personal power base in the gop. It is what saved him from going down in 08. But the more tea baggers sent to the senate will certainly dilute that because they hate him, if you can believe it, for his moderation, at least in part.
There is an epic underwar going on in the GOP these days, that makes our circular firing squads seem like child’s play. And it is moving in the direction of Peak Wingnut. Except for the Demint’s in the senate, the rest of them have their grubby little fingers stuck in the wind to see which way the crazy is blowing. So any thing can happen down the road.
There could well come the day fairly soon where we will whimsically remember Mitch the bitch as better times.
Omnes Omnibus
@demo woman: Thanks, watching it now. He is on attack.
jwb
@demo woman: Glad to hear it. I’m curious to see how the media spins this into good news for Republicans. Goopers under his skin? Obama is angry? Obama goes for class warfare?
General Stuck
@demo woman:
Yes, but he could have done this sooner/pro left. Of course no one would have paid attention till now, but never mind that.
Omnes Omnibus
I like the car analogy. Simple, straight forward, and accurate.
demo woman
@General Stuck: I really want him to say they don’t want bipartisanship they want power.
marion
He’s back!!! That’s the man I voted for…if he keeps this up till election day maybe we won’t do so badly. He tore them up!!!
jmy
Obama was on his game today.
Davis X. Machina
@Corner Stone: Viva Wandy! I got him off waivers six weeks ago in my Rotisserie league. He’s been keeping me alive single-handedly.
General Stuck
@demo woman: I have heard him say this before, or maybe in slightly different terms, and in more of an exasperated tone. I think the tone needs to darken and tighten up into more like condemnation and abject blame for the wingnuts obstructionism. The heated part of the campaign starts today, Labor Day. And he will begin to crank it up with campaign style rhetoric and as much fire as his personality will allow for. We can hope the rest of the flubber dems will do the same, or just run away from a fight like they usually do when the going is tough.
Martin
@demo woman: Labor Day is when election season officially starts for the Dems.
Omnes Omnibus
@jwb: The talking suit in front of the White House after the speech referred to “shocking rhetoric” coming from Obama. On the other hand, they also said he used his sense of humor like a weapon.
General Stuck
dern, i missed the speech. Sounds like O tore em a new asshole.
Corner Stone
@Davis X. Machina: Well, it’s tied 4 – 4 now in the 6th. He had a Wrigley HR tagged on him for 2.
demo woman
@General Stuck: I’m not sure how much I watched. I’m searching for the entire video now.
jmy
That car analogy was brilliant when you think about putting the car in D (drive and D as in Democrat) you’re trying to move forward and R (reverse and R as in Republican) trying to move backwards.
The sad thing is people are actually willing to give Republicans the keys to the car again even when Republicans are saying we are gonna drive in that ditch, we are gonna do the same things we did for over a decade, and idiots will still vote for them.
Linda Featheringill
@demo woman:
Where did you find the Prez’s speech? Can’t find it myself.
stuckinred
@Omnes Omnibus: Yea, and it’s so fresh. He’s only used it every day for the last 2 months.
jwb
@Omnes Omnibus: At the moment, the Times evidently doesn’t know what to make of it. The story they have posted is the usual boilerplate—though it did mention that he went offscript to make the comment about being talked about like a dog.
Davis X. Machina
@stuckinred: Wait, I thought that was a good thing. Repetition. Just like the GOP machine. Message discipline. Something that doesn’t go onto a second bumper sticker.
And now it’s a bad thing.
Shit, I just can’t keep up any more…I’m going back to stuff I know.
“Fifty-four forty, or fight!”
demo woman
@Linda Featheringill: I saw it on MSNBC online and called a friend, she watched it on CNN so one should have the tape up shortly. It was just luck that I saw a link to it and I did not see the whole speech. I don’t have cable and my friend called me back while the repubs were trying to dispute it and basically the guy said, duh, duh, duh, he’s not being bipartisan. He called out names and was ugly.
lol
Mnemosyne
@stuckinred:
I thought the complaint was that Obama never said anything bad about the Republicans. Is the new complaint that when he says bad things about the Republicans, you don’t like the specific metaphor that he chose?
R-Jud
@Davis X. Machina:
Snort.
“Remember the Maine!”
stuckinred
@Davis X. Machina: I guess you are right and that was just a line in a pretty long speech. I guess I’m just surprised that a bunch on wonks find it so compelling.
marion
@demo woman: It’s up on huffingtonpost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/06/obama-promotes-job-creati_n_706652.html
stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: No, I have no problem with it it’s just that he’s been using it a great deal and it seemed like people were reacting like it was just unveiled.
demo woman
@stuckinred: I had heard that line before but today was different. He is no longer the President reaching across the hall. He talked about orange man stating that he wasn’t going to save government jobs. The President pointed out those jobs were firemen who save your life and teachers who teach your children. Bozo Boortz talks about government schools instead of public schools and I had the feeling that the President was taking back that term.
stuckinred
@demo woman: Then I was not just wrong, I was totally wrong! No prisoners!!!!
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Black man running wild with a weapon!
Omnes Omnibus
@stuckinred: It is my feeling that they have been working out the kinks in the analogy and that today was its debut in finished form. I also think that this is going to be the Dem campaign theme. The Slurpee bit was great.
General Stuck
@MikeJ: This is my weapon, this is my gun. This one’s fer fighting this one’s fer fun.
Keith G
@stuckinred: What the wonks find compelling is at ability to attack in such a way that a part time Wal-Mart clerk from Kansas City can understand.
The Repugs communicate on a 3rd grade level. We need to try to at least get it down to middle school.
Linda Featheringill
CSPAN has the video now.
stuckinred
@Keith G: Hmm, is that like showing militant Muslims we are better than them by acting like them?
Mnemosyne
@stuckinred:
Ah, okay. I’ve been having a particularly stupid argument with another regular, so my brain is a little sluggish.
I haven’t had a chance to watch the speech yet, but it does sound like they took the metaphor they’ve been working on for a while and honed it to a sharp edge for election season. I hope so, anyway.
stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: I think my argument is stupid. I have to do something to kill another 3.5 hours till the Hokie game!
demo woman
@stuckinred: Have you seen the ad against Barnes showing the President with his arm in the air, I assume in a Hitler stance? I would take money out of savings to send to Barnes if he denounced it but I feel he wants to go down like Dukakis.
General Stuck
@Mnemosyne: @stuckinred:
Here yooz two, have a box of chocolates,
Maude
@demo woman:
Bet he’s going to use the refusal to pass the UI when he starts talking about the jobs bill. It’s about timing, IMHO.
There’s a lot he can say against the Repubs.
It will be a good campaign season.
Keith G
@stuckinred: No
Its basis marketing.
Mnemosyne
@stuckinred:
Until you start arguing that Mao was a space alien as a metaphor for your conviction that President Gore would have gotten us into a war in Iraq so therefore it doesn’t matter if Republicans or Democrats are in power, you will not be able to match the stupidity of the argument I am in right now.
Mark S.
@General Stuck:
I bet Mitch actually prefers being in the minority, albeit not as large a one as it is now. Republicans don’t go into government because they have any ideas or want to get things done. I find this little snippet from the Corner several months ago to be quite revealing:
Those three day work weeks are brutal!
General Stuck
@Mnemosyne:
yea, that Mao space alien thing rendered me momentarily speechless, and, well, stupid, also too. We are going to all need drool cups if it keeps up.
stuckinred
@demo woman: @demo woman: In a state where a fucking draft dodger like Saxby can compare a triple amputee Nam Vet to Bin Laden nothing surprises me.
stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: I’ll keep tryin! :)
Mark S.
@Mnemosyne:
It is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
stuckinred
@Keith G:
it
was
a
joke
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus:
God all-fucking-mighty. Between the right, the professional left, and the motherfucking useless media… I’m not at the point JC was this morning, but I feel like I’m drowning in the stupid, going down for the second time.
Martin
@stuckinred: I think he first used it in early August, actually. But yeah, it’s not new for today.
Corner Stone
@Mnemosyne: You are not arguing. You are lying. I have asked you repeteadly to quote where I make the claims you say I make.
You can’t.
You just reinterpret the next phrase to try and further your lie.
It’s really no use for me to refute that kind of deception, so I may as well ask you about other crazy shit you believe.
You are a liar and can not back up anything you are trying to say I said.
If you could, you would. You can not. So you just lie.
Maude
Saying that he’s been treated like a dog is interesting. There was a demonstration in Afghanistan about the hate toward Muslims in the US. This will play well also in the Mideast.
We have soldiers there and hatred toward the Americans is dangerous to them.
PaulW
reporting in: Only got to 62 pages on the 3-Day Novel project so far. Hopefully to reach 100 pages by midnight tonight. The best news is, I feel better about this project than any other novel I’ve worked on, that includes the 50,000 one I tried writing for NaNoWriMo last November (and never finished).
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I know… The rhetoric being thrown at him is some the most vile crap I have ever heard. He calls some people out for their actual positions, votes, and statements and it is shocking. As a good friend of mine once said, in a different context in Kitzbuhel, Austria, “I hate idiots.”
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: What ARE you talking about?
General Stuck
@Mark S.: The republicans from long experience, are a superb minority opposition custom fit for this country. It is what all the think tank stuff focused on for decades. Of course, with the ultimate goal of gaining the majority, which they did, and found themselves completely unfit to govern. So there is something to that psychologically, maybe an unconscious wariness of gaining control again, especially this soon after screwing the pooch so thoroughly.
But they know the soft spots of the American voter, and the democratic party for attack, with a relentless message machine. And of course, they are nearly all white, in a still majority white country, which provides them with a large bag of fearmongering tricks to reach into.
Omnes Omnibus
@stuckinred: A fight seems to have moved here from the Controlled Panic thread.
Mnemosyne
@Corner Stone:
Actually, I did quote you. Repeatedly. With links and comment numbers. And yet not once did you say, “That’s not what I meant — what I meant was X, Y or Z.” You just kept ignoring my quotes of exactly what you said and claiming I never quoted you.
I’ve quoted you four times so far and you’ve ignored all of them.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yep, and I’d probably better take it back there. Sorry, all.
demo woman
@stuckinred: I think he/she feels left out.
Corner Stone
@Mnemosyne: No, you have made claims I said things that are very specific. I have asked you to quote those things.
You quote other things I have said and make the claim that they are what you say I am claiming.
You have yet to actually ever once quote where I have said what you claim I have said.
You keep quoting things I write, but none of them actually say what you keep claiming.
In your universe maybe they do. But people that read what is written? They do not.
Brachiator
Keira Knightly’s posterior is not bad, either. And on a motorcyle!
I just heard about the recent passing of LA Times editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad, who died Saturday at age 86.
Word is it that Times publisher Otis Chandler had a gentleman’s agreement with Conrad that he would never censor or second-guess his work. And since Conrad just loved to stick it to Reagan, Nixon and other representatives of the Republican establishment, Chandler had to brush off angry phone calls from his friends demanding that he fire Conrad.
Conrad once famously drew Governor Ronnie as “Reagan Hood.” A sample of Conrad’s work can be seen here.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s not a fight, nor an argument.
If anyone here can agree I have said what she keeps claiming I will give it up for the day.
Corner Stone
@stuckinred: Mnemosyne keeps lying. Yet she alludes to an “argument”. It’s not.
That’s all.
Corner Stone
@Mnemosyne: No, you’re quoting me alright. But the parts where you quote me have nothing to do with what you are claiming I am saying.
Mnemosyne
@Corner Stone:
@Corner Stone:
@Corner Stone:
Sorry, dude, not hashing it out here. If you don’t like the way I quoted you, you should argue it in the thread where the quotes are and not drag it to another thread.
Keith G
@Corner Stone: Well.
You *have* said quite a lot today.
But, it is a glorious day in Houston.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: I am Sweden in this war.
Anne Laurie
@Corner Stone:
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In the ‘general reader’ sense, or just the ‘professional interest’ category?
The Amazon reviews are positive, but I really wish Shirky (or his publishers) had taken advantage of the ‘Look Inside’ widget.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie: I saw his talk on TED, which I usually don’t find too interesting. But I did some digging on him and bought Cognitive Surplus for Kindle.
It’s interesting in the general sense, and I’m about half way through it.
I don’t think he’s as sharp as his hype but I do find the concept thought provoking.
mclaren
@demo woman:
Tragically, no one seems to have learned that Obama does the opposite of what he says he’ll do.
Superb writer. Fine speechmaker. Inexperienced and naive and inept president, just as he was an inexperienced and naive and inept legislator.
The poor guy got swept by the tides of history into a chair way too big for him.
Oh well. At least he’s the first black president. No one can take that away from him. He’s a damn good writer too. His books are excellent. But, like most writers, when it comes to real life, he’s helpless and hopeless. I really look forward to reading Obama’s memoirs, though. He’s nearly as good as writer as Ulysses Grant was. Obama’s memoirs should be a crackerjack read even if he winds up as a failed one-term president.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Which is to say, briefly, that he believes the gap between doing nothing and creating something is the crucial step.
No matter what the value is, if you are participating then you are adding some kind of value.
It may be LOLcats, or a program to track hotspots round the globe, doesn’t matter (kind of).
As long as people are turning off the tube and engaging in collective creativity there’s a universe we can do.
People don’t need to be directed, but rather allowed to just create. And value will be created.
That’s my summary so far.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Do you have blond pigtails?
Oh, you said “Sweden”, not Swedish.
eemom
Wow. I know I’m not the ONLY one here old enough to get the song in the post title.
Let’s get physical, physical……
Pretty dumb song, ’tis true, but Olivia Newton-John did have a lovely voice.
ETA: Not the title, the actual post. Oops.
jwb
@mclaren: If you can’t be positive can you please just shut the fuck up until after the election. These sorts of comments help no one but Republicans.
Anne Laurie
@mclaren: Go read Scott Meyer’s cartoon, one thread up. A gift, just for you!
School of Eeyore, dude. Of course everything’s shite and we’re all gonna die broke, either alone or with our enemy’s hands locked around our throat. But in the meantime, we do what we can to enjoy the empty honeypots and popped balloons that are left.
stuckinred
@eemom: Oblivious Neutron Bomb and John Revolting.
A lovely voice, oh yea, that’s what I liked about her!
mclaren
@Corner Stone:
Dude…give it up. You’re trying to argue with someone who has serious psychological problems.
@Anne Laurie: Anything by Clay Shirky kicks ass and takes names. Withal, Cognitive Surplus is just an expanded version of this Edge talk (links to a transcript as well as a video).
Here are some great Clay Shirky quotes for ya:
15 great Clay Shirky quotes.
eemom
@stuckinred:
tee hee.
Actually, aside from Grease, most of her songs were kind of sappy, IIRC.
General Stuck
@mclaren: Aside from being an apocalyptic fool, who may well end up being right on that score, you are also a self absorbed idiot with way too many links stored on your computer plugged into way too long manifestos of bullshit. Failed president Obama. LOL. Though he might as well say fuck it for a second term, with jerkwad libtards like you on his side of the ideological divide, power fluffing every single wingnut meme that crosses the transom. Now be a good left wing grammar nazi and correct my spelling. It’s what you do best.
mclaren
@Corner Stone:
Good summary. Trouble is, Shirky’s an optimist. When large numbers of people come together online, they tend not to create the Sistine Chapel ceiling — instead, they tend to produce hi-tech lynch mobs.
There’s a substantial case to be made for the value of sitcoms as a sedative for keeping the average American relatively harmless. (They stop being harmless every four years when they vote for a president, but outside of those kinds of unavoidable issues, the danger posed by the average American can be contained by big-budget braindead blockbuster superhero movies and TV sitcoms and rental XXX porn and shoot-’em-up videogames like Gears of War and HALO.) When your average American gets roused out of hi/r sitcom/videogame stupor, the result is apt to be Iraq invasion 2003.
That guy with the truck sporting bumper stickers that read DAMN, I JUST STEPPED IN SOME SHIITE and KILL ‘EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT THEM OUT and THE ELECTRIC CHAIR MEANS JUSTICE – REGULAR, OR EXTRA CRISPY is the guy whose creativity you’re talking about unleashing.
We saw the results of that kind of creativity at Abu Ghraib.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren: You seem misanthropic and apocalyptic, so you shouldn’t be too concerned. We all suck, but we’ll soon be dead. Right? So stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
Corner Stone
@mclaren:
I’d agree he’s an optimist. And he uses some positive outcomes to sell his idea.
So there’s that, to be sure.
But I also happen to agree with him that a large number of people really do want to help, to create, to be part of something positive they can get on board with.
Bad times bring out the worst in people, and certain segments demagogue those tendencies for their own gain. That’s true.
I just believe the creative expression of a collective can come out ok, and does not have to be a hate mob or lynching.
mclaren
@jwb:
Thanks for the encouragement. If you hate what I have to say, that’s a sure sign I’m on the right track and have to say it louder and more forcefully and get in your face and in your space much more intensely when I say it.
The internet is a wonderfully reliable guide. Whenever someone in a forum like this tells me “Your post was insightful and brilliant!” I know I’ve inadvertently said some grotesquely stupid thing. Contrariwise, when they assure me of my idiocy, it’s the gold standard that I’ve really said something outstanding.
@General Stuck:
Shorter General Crackpot Fake Name:
Brawndo! It’s the drink internet forums crave!
General Stuck
@mclaren: Jeebus, Mclaren, if corner stone has your babies, we are all in for it.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren:Your post was insightful and brilliant!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
damn, I stepped in PUMA scat
mclaren
@Omnes Omnibus:
Dammit, now I’ve gone and done it…
Keith G
@mclaren: I think you are belaboring that point.
jwb
@mclaren: Best thing I’ve ever read. You are brilliant beyond the stars. Please write more of this. /eyeroll
Brachiator
@mclaren:
You’re not serious, right? I mean, you’re just throwing out some stuff to cause a little Labor Day excitement.
Your example is a bit confused. Grant, who you acknowledge to be a good writer, was not too successful in civilian life, but was a hell of a general. And war is about as real life as it can possibly get. So if you meant to slight Obama by comparing him to Grant, I think you missed.
But aside from this, Obama has done well despite a number of challenges. He is faced with an obstinately stupid Republican opposition, full of men and women who are decidedly experienced, who insist on doubling down on their past domestic and foreign policy failures by insisting on deregulation, tax cuts and war as solutions to the nation’s problems.
And Obama also has to deal with renegade Democratic Congress critters, ostensibly his allies, but curiously wedded to GOP insanity. And then you have those Democrats who are worn out, eager to capitulate, and lacking in any new approaches to a sick economy.
And then you have the tea baggers and the Sarah Palin acolytes, wholly given to the notion that faith and ignorance are superior to rational thought and competence.
Obama has kept his cool in dealing with all these impediments. He is not superman, but he is clearly superior to all of his opposition and most of his fellow Democrats.
My prediction is that Obama’s memoirs will not only touch on his re-election and vindication, but also on his later tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
And oh yeah, your post was insightful and brilliant.
Corner Stone
@Keith G: Damn Keith G, et tu? At long last have you no sense of et tu?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Brachiator:
Nah, I don’t think Michelle has any interest in staying in DC
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
RE: but also on his later tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Obama is a young man. He will have plenty of time to go back to Chicago and Hawaii, and then come back later to serve on the Court.
DougJ
@eemom:
I never thought I’d say this, but thank you.
mclaren
@jmy:
No, Obama talked a good game today. Obama is like the guy sitting in his barcalounger at home who gives a brilliant play-by-play analysis of a football game. Wonderful talk, but the poor sonofabitch wouldn’t last 3 minutes in an actual football.
There’s a whole goddamn world of difference between talk and actually getting something done.
Obama’s great at the talking part. The actually getting something done part…not so much.
mclaren
@jwb:
Ha! Well played, sir.