Definition of "meme" points out these ideas get reinforced by repetition, so news outlets come up with a talking point, repeat it endlessly, and then use election results--even one where the only votes that counted came from five United States Supreme court justices--to justify creating these "meme" things and using them to sell commercials and ad space.
One meme which frankly still perplexes me remains which candidate would people rather have a beer with.
What the hell does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Sure, I'd even have a beer with ex figurehead president Jr. Bush--but not the leprous souled ex president Cheney, not even if Dick bought the rounds and tequila shooters--but when it comes to leading the "free" world and trying to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. we ought to ask whom we would not play poker with.because the bastard will bluff, smile, stab, and calculate odds to .01% to make sure he leaves the table a winner.
So when President Obama went to the White House Correspondents Dinner and calmly told jokes, betraying no hint of tension over a possibly career ending decision to get bin Laden, he had to have some sort of qualms, like just bet the rent and food money and Michelle will kill me if I lose yet he showed not so much as a drop of sweat.
So too his laid back debate performance comes as both his calm nature and by plan because the media meme had to have the Mittbot "winning" to keep the horse race interesting so they could keep selling product.
Also with Willard's penchant for lying--or call it absolute inability to see much less say any truth inconvenient to his winning more power--Mr. Obama could lay back and let the fact checkers do his work for him, a rhetorical rope a dope if you will, staying presidential and respectful while allowing Mittens to hoist himself on his own petard.
So, Mr. President, come on down to the Fillin' Station, and I'll buy you a beer.
But damn sure ain't playing poker with you.
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
"Bear-hugged President Barack"
[BY ALEXANDRA SELTZER
PALM BEACH POST
In the 24 hours, Port St. Lucie resident Scott Van Duzer has gone from a local pizza store owner to a man wanted across the world after he bear-hugged President Barack Obama Sunday afternoon....
“I didn’t know I was going to hug the guy,” founder of the Van Duzer Foundation said. “It was something special that I’ll never forget....”
The registered Republican voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to vote for him this year again.
It’s his message of change and his genuine personality that Van Duzer likes most.
“I saw it first-hand,” Van Duzer said of the president’s personality. “It didn’t feel like it was just another stop on his tour.”
Before continuing to his next stop, Obama spent almost $200 on a variation of pizza pies and left the waitresses with more than a 30 percent tip, Van Duzer said.]
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/10/2995228/florida-pizza-man-who-hugged-obama.html
PALM BEACH POST
In the 24 hours, Port St. Lucie resident Scott Van Duzer has gone from a local pizza store owner to a man wanted across the world after he bear-hugged President Barack Obama Sunday afternoon....
“I didn’t know I was going to hug the guy,” founder of the Van Duzer Foundation said. “It was something special that I’ll never forget....”
The registered Republican voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to vote for him this year again.
It’s his message of change and his genuine personality that Van Duzer likes most.
“I saw it first-hand,” Van Duzer said of the president’s personality. “It didn’t feel like it was just another stop on his tour.”
Before continuing to his next stop, Obama spent almost $200 on a variation of pizza pies and left the waitresses with more than a 30 percent tip, Van Duzer said.]
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/10/2995228/florida-pizza-man-who-hugged-obama.html
Monday, September 3, 2012
Obama Campaign Slogan from Culture of Truth
General Motors lives; Bin Laden is dead: http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-press-september-2-2012.html. Language not suitable for work but accurate nevertheless.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Barack, I Thought I was the Only One!
How did they figure out to only ask me for $5?
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/obama-emails-2012-8/
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/obama-emails-2012-8/
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Why I Will Vote for Obama
Don't believe me in the tank for his O'ness. Things like a widening drone war, illegal and indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay, extra judicial killings of American citizens on executive branch kill lists, have cooled my ardor.
Nevertheless given the choice between voting for a souless vulture capitalist, dressage horse owner, and bloodsucking leech like Willard Romney or Barack Obama, my vote gotta go for O.
Peace out, y'all.
Nevertheless given the choice between voting for a souless vulture capitalist, dressage horse owner, and bloodsucking leech like Willard Romney or Barack Obama, my vote gotta go for O.
Peace out, y'all.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Barry Obama; My BFF Too
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show details 11:46 AM (2 hours ago) |
| Dan -- I come into this election with clear eyes. I am proud of all we have achieved together, but I am mindful of all that remains to be done. I know some out there are frustrated by the pace of our progress. I want you to know I'm frustrated, too. But with so much riding on the outcome of this election, I need everyone to get in this game. Neither one of us is here because we thought it would be easy. Making change is hard. It's what we've said from the beginning. And we've got the lumps to show for it.] emphasis added Funny how all my BFF's found $5 a good amount for me to give, my pauper's mite as it were. |
Monday, August 24, 2009
More Reasons Obama Better Than Bush
11. Actually learned something in graduate, i.e. law school. Appears to understand the basic principles of our form of government. Compare to Bush who, apparently, learned in business school how to destroy an economy.
12. Thinks knowledge is useful rather than Bush who thinks ignorance is funny.
13. Knows the importance of acknowledging a mistake and correcting it versus Bush, who looked for the missing WMD under the lectern. With Obama, course corrections are possible.
14. His father was from another country. Bush's mother is from another planet.
15. Got elected without resorting to campaign workers and his own brother throwing the recount.
16. Actually did useful work before public office.
17. Has a wife who supports him because he's right, not because he is "the husband."
18. Accepts the consequences of his own actions rather than letting the next guy take the fall.
19. Knows that there is more than one branch of Islam.
and (drum roll please)
20. Is not afraid to go hunting with his VP.
Comments from James Speaks at Informed Comment.
12. Thinks knowledge is useful rather than Bush who thinks ignorance is funny.
13. Knows the importance of acknowledging a mistake and correcting it versus Bush, who looked for the missing WMD under the lectern. With Obama, course corrections are possible.
14. His father was from another country. Bush's mother is from another planet.
15. Got elected without resorting to campaign workers and his own brother throwing the recount.
16. Actually did useful work before public office.
17. Has a wife who supports him because he's right, not because he is "the husband."
18. Accepts the consequences of his own actions rather than letting the next guy take the fall.
19. Knows that there is more than one branch of Islam.
and (drum roll please)
20. Is not afraid to go hunting with his VP.
Comments from James Speaks at Informed Comment.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months
Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months
Obama, unlike Bush:
1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.
2. Knows who president of Pakistan is
3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels
4. Does not take orders from his veep
5. Not on vacation 40% of time
6. Clears away Bush's harm, rather than clearing brush on farm
7. Worried about 47 million uninsured, not about 47 thousand idle rich multi-millionaires
8. Not removing oversight from bankers on theory that financiers would never steal from own bank!
9. does not believe US menaced by Gog and Magog
10. Not ignoring threat of al-Qaeda
(Above so totally stolen from Juan Cole at Informed Comment; he gives views from an Arab perspective not often seen in in the so-called liberal media
)
Obama, unlike Bush:
1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.
2. Knows who president of Pakistan is
3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels
4. Does not take orders from his veep
5. Not on vacation 40% of time
6. Clears away Bush's harm, rather than clearing brush on farm
7. Worried about 47 million uninsured, not about 47 thousand idle rich multi-millionaires
8. Not removing oversight from bankers on theory that financiers would never steal from own bank!
9. does not believe US menaced by Gog and Magog
10. Not ignoring threat of al-Qaeda
(Above so totally stolen from Juan Cole at Informed Comment; he gives views from an Arab perspective not often seen in in the so-called liberal media
)
Monday, May 26, 2008
Why hysterical Hillary hate?
Reading political blogs lately, even progressive ones, reveals an extraordinary amount of bile poured out on the presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, akin to what normally describes President Cheney.
Without dog in this fight-perhaps a poor choice of metaphor but I will work for whomever the Democratic party selects--the depth of rhetoric shocks even my jaded sensibilities, coming as it does from bloggers I read regularly like Americablog, sorry Mr. Aravois.
Wih the recent ginned up controversy over HRC's metion of Bobby Kennedy, otherwise normally rational people rushed to claim she should not even use the word "assasination" and equated it to sme racist comment when the selfsame bloggers used it detailing security breakdowns at Senator Obama's campaign appearances.
For the sake of the US constitution in mortal peril under a McCain/Cheney administration, seems to me we ought to tone down the rhetoric, get a beer or other libation of choice, and watch a sunset with no laptop, ipod, 'net connections or other tools of the devil to hand for it occurs instaneous communication breeds excessive vitriol on all sides.
The inimitable Paul Krugman agres with me in his column today, "So what should Mr. Obama and his supporters do?
Most immediately, they should realize that the continuing demonization of Mrs. Clinton serves nobody except Mr. McCain."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Also with 2 talented nieces, both of whom I'd like to become US President someday, the conundrum facing succesful women--a take charge female boss gets perceived as a "bitch" while identical actions by a male manager evoke descriptions as strongwilled--makes me fear them someday bumping up against a glass ceiling.
This has a historical context also, perhaps starting with literal witch hunts in Middle Ages when some reports exist of female populations nearly wiped out in some areas.
Please read the Chicago Tribune column in entirety at http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-fempower-0518may18,0,4333714.column
[...Revealed in the coverage of Clinton's campaign is the persistence of an ancient and distasteful cultural theme: the powerful, ambitious woman as cackling fiend, as fantastically terrifying ghoul threatening civilization. And because this creature (or "she-devil," as MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews called Clinton) is not human, the only solution is to kill it. Not just derail its career—obliterate it. Smash it to smithereens. Vaporize it. Leave not a trace of the foul beast behind.
Hence the appalling preponderance of violent, death-infused imagery in conversations about Clinton, smuggled into otherwise ordinary political discourse like a knife taped on the bottom of a cake plate: On CNN, pundit Alex Castellanos said democrats must realize that "it's time to take the family dog to the vet." Matthews' MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann expressed the hope that "somebody will take her into a room—and only he comes out." CNN's Jack Cafferty gleefully floated the specter of Clinton being run over by a flatbed truck. A recent Tribune editorial compared Clinton to a euthanized Kentucky Derby contender...
One of the most barbaric medical procedures ever performed legally in this country was the lobotomy, and a look at its early history is chilling. As Jack El-Hai recounts in his book, "The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness" (2005), the frightening operation that could leave patients catatonic or dead often was employed as a way to deal with "difficult" women, with wives and mothers who had minds of their own, with willful daughters and headstrong sisters. The message was clear: Do whatever you have to do—but shut her up.
The notion of a powerful, driven, influential woman as a hideous threat—a threat that can be curtailed only with her death—ripples through literature, from the D.H. Lawrence novel "Sons and Lovers" (1913), with its protagonist's conviction that he must escape the clutches of his looming, clingy mother if he is ever to realize his destiny, to the 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, with its way-scary female character: the loathsome, larger-than-life Nurse Ratched. The joyless, hulking harridan who wants to keep her patients drugged and miserable so she can control them. From the Furies in Greek literature onward, the women-as-mythical-monsters theme has shrieked, flapped and lurched its way through the arts.
These observations, by the way, have nothing to do with the issue of Clinton's or Obama's continued candidacies. That's a subject to be debated on the editorial pages, not here. This corner is reserved for cultural imagery, for a spirited exploration of the way a shared belief or preoccupation ultimately manifests itself in our entertainment products. Such an idea is like a splinter driven so deep, resting undisturbed for so long, that for a time you may not even be aware of it. Then slowly, slowly, it begins to work its way to the surface. One day, the sharp tip breaks the skin, and you see what's been down there all along, spreading its poison.] emphasis added
So please give my hope for my nieces a chance.
Without dog in this fight-perhaps a poor choice of metaphor but I will work for whomever the Democratic party selects--the depth of rhetoric shocks even my jaded sensibilities, coming as it does from bloggers I read regularly like Americablog, sorry Mr. Aravois.
Wih the recent ginned up controversy over HRC's metion of Bobby Kennedy, otherwise normally rational people rushed to claim she should not even use the word "assasination" and equated it to sme racist comment when the selfsame bloggers used it detailing security breakdowns at Senator Obama's campaign appearances.
For the sake of the US constitution in mortal peril under a McCain/Cheney administration, seems to me we ought to tone down the rhetoric, get a beer or other libation of choice, and watch a sunset with no laptop, ipod, 'net connections or other tools of the devil to hand for it occurs instaneous communication breeds excessive vitriol on all sides.
The inimitable Paul Krugman agres with me in his column today, "So what should Mr. Obama and his supporters do?
Most immediately, they should realize that the continuing demonization of Mrs. Clinton serves nobody except Mr. McCain."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Also with 2 talented nieces, both of whom I'd like to become US President someday, the conundrum facing succesful women--a take charge female boss gets perceived as a "bitch" while identical actions by a male manager evoke descriptions as strongwilled--makes me fear them someday bumping up against a glass ceiling.
This has a historical context also, perhaps starting with literal witch hunts in Middle Ages when some reports exist of female populations nearly wiped out in some areas.
Please read the Chicago Tribune column in entirety at http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-fempower-0518may18,0,4333714.column
[...Revealed in the coverage of Clinton's campaign is the persistence of an ancient and distasteful cultural theme: the powerful, ambitious woman as cackling fiend, as fantastically terrifying ghoul threatening civilization. And because this creature (or "she-devil," as MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews called Clinton) is not human, the only solution is to kill it. Not just derail its career—obliterate it. Smash it to smithereens. Vaporize it. Leave not a trace of the foul beast behind.
Hence the appalling preponderance of violent, death-infused imagery in conversations about Clinton, smuggled into otherwise ordinary political discourse like a knife taped on the bottom of a cake plate: On CNN, pundit Alex Castellanos said democrats must realize that "it's time to take the family dog to the vet." Matthews' MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann expressed the hope that "somebody will take her into a room—and only he comes out." CNN's Jack Cafferty gleefully floated the specter of Clinton being run over by a flatbed truck. A recent Tribune editorial compared Clinton to a euthanized Kentucky Derby contender...
One of the most barbaric medical procedures ever performed legally in this country was the lobotomy, and a look at its early history is chilling. As Jack El-Hai recounts in his book, "The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness" (2005), the frightening operation that could leave patients catatonic or dead often was employed as a way to deal with "difficult" women, with wives and mothers who had minds of their own, with willful daughters and headstrong sisters. The message was clear: Do whatever you have to do—but shut her up.
The notion of a powerful, driven, influential woman as a hideous threat—a threat that can be curtailed only with her death—ripples through literature, from the D.H. Lawrence novel "Sons and Lovers" (1913), with its protagonist's conviction that he must escape the clutches of his looming, clingy mother if he is ever to realize his destiny, to the 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, with its way-scary female character: the loathsome, larger-than-life Nurse Ratched. The joyless, hulking harridan who wants to keep her patients drugged and miserable so she can control them. From the Furies in Greek literature onward, the women-as-mythical-monsters theme has shrieked, flapped and lurched its way through the arts.
These observations, by the way, have nothing to do with the issue of Clinton's or Obama's continued candidacies. That's a subject to be debated on the editorial pages, not here. This corner is reserved for cultural imagery, for a spirited exploration of the way a shared belief or preoccupation ultimately manifests itself in our entertainment products. Such an idea is like a splinter driven so deep, resting undisturbed for so long, that for a time you may not even be aware of it. Then slowly, slowly, it begins to work its way to the surface. One day, the sharp tip breaks the skin, and you see what's been down there all along, spreading its poison.] emphasis added
So please give my hope for my nieces a chance.
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