How Can We Not Love Obama? -- Because like it or not, he is all of us

esquire ^ | July 12, 2011, 9:00 AM | By Stephen Marche

[the invisib1e hand]

i don't read this rag, it was called to my attention. did a search, apologies if I missed it.

[ClearCase_guy]

According to literary scholar Christopher Booker, every narrative in the world, from Gilgamesh to War and Peace to Water for Elephants, can be reduced to one of only seven master plots.

Pulp writer Jim Thompson said it better: "There are thirty-two ways to tell a story, and I've used them all, but there is really only one plot: Things are not as they seem."

[rlmorel]

HorseHooey.

Barack Obama is a lot of things, but one of things he is NOT is “all of us”.

And he DEFINITELY isn’t ME.

To the author, I say: “Speak for yourself, you pathetic liberal mouthpiece.”

What a steaming pantload.

[hosepipe]

This is true.. How many republicans you know that would return a federal government check?..

We may have NOW a federal government that reflects “the people”..

[2ndDivisionVet]

[556x45]

Hes only like us if the playing field is leveled well downward. In other words hes OK b/c we’re not. Typical liberal ‘logic’.

[oncebitten]

I saw this article a couple days ago and found it sickening. I thought Esquire was a “mans” magazine. If the author represents the state of manhood in the USA, then I guess we should just turn out the lights. What a crock.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Stevie Boy sounds like he was custom built for kneepads:

Stephen Marche (born 1976) is a Canadian novelist and writer for magazines and newspapers. His first novel, Raymond and Hannah, was published in 2005, and his second Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, in 2007. Both received widespread critical acclaim, in Canada and the United States.[1]

He currently writes a monthly column for Esquire, “A Thousand Words about our Culture,” which in 2011 was a finalist of the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary, and a weekly column for the National Post, “Close Reading.”[2] In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto.[3]

Marche has strongly criticized the blasphemy law in Ireland, arguing that it violates contemporary norms about freedom of speech.[4] He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare’s impact on world history.[5]

On October 16, 2010, Marche wrote for the Globe and Mail a column which was criticized by some as “gutter” journalism and which was subsequently pulled from the paper’s website. The column was described by some as a “personal assault” on a political candidate during an election and as representative of “left wing” obsessiveness with weight.[6][7] However, others have argued that the column is not a straightforward “personal assault” on an individual, but rather an interpretation of obesity as a cultural symbol.[8]
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[Loud Mime]

Since when was I involved in racketeering?

[newzjunkey]

Consider the source.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is one really sick piece...it's the intellectual version of "he sends tingles up my...."

I just don't think esquire's circulation is large enough to matter; I'm sure the people that get it do so because it says "im cool" and it contains gratuitous images of scantily clad sluts.

[the invisib1e hand]

I thought Esquire was a “mans” magazine.

You have GOT to be kidding!

[the invisib1e hand]

the only mug more sickening than Helen Thomas (so far).

[Hoffer Rand]

Could this guy’s face be planted more firmly up Zero’s behind? Dude, take a step back. Then you’ll be able to see what you’re sniffing.

[rlmorel]

The more I read this, the madder I got. It even got me pissed off at Walt Whitman, referring to him as “the original American”.

“The Original American” was someone like Washington, Adams or even Nathaniel Green, not some beatnik liberal like Walt Whitman.

Liberalism is a mental illness. This opinion piece proves it.

[WayneS]

We love Obama — even those who claim to despise him — because deep in our hearts and all over our lives, we're the same way..

Uh, nope.

In fact, as I have previously stated, I would not perpendicularly traverse a linear travelway in order to micturate upon him were I to ascertain that he was rapidly combining with oxygen.

That is hardly the attitude of someone who 'loves' Obama, sir, so you'd better think again.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Does this man experience spontaneous tension release whenever he gazes upon a picture of “The Divine One?” Does his breathing and heart rate approach a peak moment followed by a total relaxation, followed by a cigarette? Does he experience rapid contractions of his sphincter ani whenever he sees a picture? Liberals do have psycho-sexual pathologies.

[DeFault User]

We are all inept, ignorant blunderers? I thought it was only about 35% of the population (trying to be optimistic).

[VeniVidiVici]

Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph.

Man. What is this dumbass smoking?

[a fool in paradise]

can we just enjoy Obama for a moment

More HOPEY CHANGE to get the mushheads to vote to re-elect Jimmy Carter one more time.