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i don't read this rag, it was called to my attention. did a search, apologies if I missed it.
1 posted on 07/18/2011 1:10:49 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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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."

2 posted on 07/18/2011 1:14:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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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.


3 posted on 07/18/2011 1:16:29 PM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one doesn't need 'marching orders' to reach the same destination")
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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”..


4 posted on 07/18/2011 1:18:28 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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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.
7 posted on 07/18/2011 1:20:53 PM PDT by oncebitten (Re: Obama: "I could carve a better man out of a banana." T. Roosevelt)
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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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8 posted on 07/18/2011 1:21:10 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (EX Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Celebrate 'Perversity'")
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Consider the source.


10 posted on 07/18/2011 1:22:42 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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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.

11 posted on 07/18/2011 1:22:42 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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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.


14 posted on 07/18/2011 1:26:16 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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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.

16 posted on 07/18/2011 1:27:34 PM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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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.
17 posted on 07/18/2011 1:28:57 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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We are all inept, ignorant blunderers? I thought it was only about 35% of the population (trying to be optimistic).


18 posted on 07/18/2011 1:29:18 PM PDT by DeFault User
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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?

19 posted on 07/18/2011 1:29:36 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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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.

20 posted on 07/18/2011 1:30:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
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Dear GOD~! please save us from these mindless idiots


21 posted on 07/18/2011 1:30:49 PM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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23 posted on 07/18/2011 1:33:55 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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Wonderful satire.....it is satire isn’t it? He can’t be serious.


24 posted on 07/18/2011 1:35:01 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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Who knew that Esquire is still being published? I thought that went out with Look magazine.


25 posted on 07/18/2011 1:37:49 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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What? No barf alert?


27 posted on 07/18/2011 1:41:08 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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[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 — both inside and outside our jobs, our races, our cities, our countries, ourselves. With great artists, often the most irritating feature of their work is the source of their talent. Obama’s gift is the same as his curse: He’s somehow managed to be like the rest of us, only infinitely more so]

Lordy, the artery in my temple just about popped reading this. Count the difference between myself and Oberfuhrer in Hubble distance.


28 posted on 07/18/2011 1:41:49 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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How CAN I not love him? Wow, I need to ponder this for a while.

...

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Nah.


29 posted on 07/18/2011 1:42:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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