Posted on 07/03/2009 7:04:46 PM PDT by pharmamom
That is my favorite line from David Kahane’s new piece over at NRO. Mostly because it’s the kind of non-sequiturish afterthought that I append in my speech all the time…a kind of verbal tic where one of the LPIMH hijacks the conversation for 10 seconds and throws everybody off the scent. I judge whether a person can keep up with me by whether or not he can follow my train of thought as it leaves the track every now and then. David Kahane is like that a lot when he writes, which is just one reason I like him.
Go read the whole damn piece, because it just sums up so well the tragic farce playing out right in front of an America that cares more about a mentally disturbed used-to-be-black guy who danced great 20 years ago. When Joe Jacko-Pack wakes up in five years and finds he can’t sell his house without the EPA seal of approval and that his job has been packed off to some carbon-spewing used-to-be-third, now-first-world county where Joe’s company can actually make a profit, I hope he still has enough electricity to replay his “Thriller” video, because he’s going to need some entertainment here in his own newly-minted underdeveloped backwater. Maybe, if the wind is blowing hard enough to power Joe’s personal wind turbine, he can run the A/C AND watch the video at the same time. I guess if it’s night time, and the wind is still, Joe is s***-ouf-of-luck.
I also liked this line: “Ever since Fidel hung up his baseball mitt and turned Cuba over to his brother in a slobber of senile drool, we’ve been looking for a strongman we could unconditionally worship.” I got an image. (Erase, erase, erase.) But then there were more and more lines I liked, so that I couldn’t possibly quote them all here. Although this one, with the holiness and Protector business, did bring to mind the Holy Hand Grenade in Monty Python…
"And so has, magnificently, our very own el Jefe, His Serene Highness the Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II, Lord of the Flies, Protector of the Holy Cities of Honolulu and Chicago, and — by the grace of Gaia — the 44th President of the United States."
Come to think of it, Obama is a lot like that little white bunny. All innocent and white (oops, well, maybe not literally) and cuddly-looking…ripping the throats out of anyone who gets in the way of Progress. Sure, he’s just O-Bambi, but oh, the long, sharp, gnashing teeth…Maybe, like David imagines at the end of his piece, Dick Cheney will break out the Holy Hand Grenade and blow the bunny to smithereens, in a constitutionally-okay sort of way, that is. But it’s not looking good.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWZiZDRmZTQ4MzgzNWQ5OTY1MmJjY2JlNTY3NzIzNDA=
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