Posted on 11/14/2008 12:39:49 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I've been traveling in New York and Texas, and it's all Obamarama all the time. People mention Sarah Palin (there was appreciative laughter the other day in Houston when a speaker said wistfully that the Alaska governor may soon discover the power of silence), and now and then President Bush (not often—people move on with a finality that is brutal), but the topic is Barack Obama. There is continuing national curiosity at and discussion of the mystery of the man—what does he think, what will he do?—coupled with a great sense of expectation, and a high sense of anxiety.
The reasons behind the preoccupation are obvious—new president, new directions—but one new aspect sharpens it. A week and a half after the election, the idea has settled in that America just threw long. People hadn't heard of Mr. Obama two years ago, they know they don't really know him now, and they just gave him the presidency. America threw long, and America is praying for a dazzling reception. People want him to catch the ball.
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I've decided that Peggy has no class.
And I'm really tired of the stilted way she talks as if she's saying something of incomparable profundity: "The...country...wanted...change." She reminds me of the journalist with the tape recorder in that Altman film "Nashville" who writes overblown bathetic poetry while walking through a junk yard.
Noonan = “camp follower for the Obama camaign”
Maybe your black co-workers are just fearful that when Obama screws up (as he will) the screw up will have racial connotations. He will be, after all, the first black president.
Yeah Peggy, America threw the long one but its an interception and BO is running it back to score AGAINST us!!!!!!!!
Very astute of you. I said something similar to a black friend: it's unfortunate for the sake of future racial relations and the progress of African-Americans in this country that the first black man elected president is not a competent person. He may poison the well for other blacks for a long time. She agreed.
The usual drool and venom from an unhappy, envious and most narcissistic woman.
“I believe renewal and reform will come from the states. There will be, in Washington and New York, a million symposia, think-tank confabs, op-ed pieces, columns and cruises; there will be epiphanies on the Amtrak Acela while delayed at Wilmington; there will be polls and books, and pollsters’ books. All fine and good, and a contribution. But the new emerging Republicans are likely to come in the end from the states, because that is where “this is what works” will come from. It is governance in the states that will yield the things that win—better handling of teachers’ unions, better management, more effective, just and therefore desirable tax systems. And, of course, more clean lines of accountability.”
-— Is she cribbing from Palin??? Aren’t these words almost exactly what Palin just said to the Governors???
Also — she wants Palin to learn the virtue of silence? Funny lady. “Take your beating, & go back to the attic, little girl.” Whatta moron!
America just fumbled.
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More like a very old joke about a horse race;
A man sent his oldest son to take their prize race horse to his first big race, they were expecting big things because the horse was very fast in training runs. The father told his son to send him a telegram when the race was over but keep it very short so it wouldn’t cost so much. When the telegram came it was just four letters, SSFF, the father threw a victory party and when his son arrived he handed him a bottle of champagne and said, “I got it as soon as I read it son, started second, finished first”.
The son drained the bottle in one long pull and said, “Not quite dad, it really meant started, stumbled, farted and fell”.
Welcome to the races!
Her "job" at the WSJ is tenuous at best.
She does have writing talent...too bad her political bent is in the wrong direction. She and that other leftist Maureen Dowd are now a team.
All we have are Michelle and Anne....and that should be quite enough!
PLEASE DON’T HIT ON ARTICLES WRITTEN BY VICHY REPUBLICAN PUNDITS. (please, although summaries are appreciated)
Nope. I enjoy pointing and laughing at them. Learn to avoid them, if you must. ;)
If they lose readership, they’ll get the point. But it might be good for someone on FR to read, summarize.
Agaain: my suggestion -- which you may certainly feel free to accept or ignore, either way, as best pleases you -- is that we agree to disagree on the matter. (It's certainly not something I'm terribly interested in debating over, absent a decree from the mods either way.)
Now: let's shake hands, FReeper to FReeper, and find other, better things with which to amuse ourselves. ;)
[cue Chris Berman]
“...Intercepted! Ahmadinejad breaks out big, he’s at the 30, he’s at the 40, he’s at the 50, and he could...go...all...the...way!”
” Pleasure me, Mandingo!”
Ah, well, and I will continue to ask people to avoid giving Peggy hits, in particular. She caused me some very bad problems this election cycle and embarrassed me deeply on a personal level. People like Brooks, Noonan, etc need to learn that most of their writings were previously consumed by people like you and me, people who they scarcely give credit for even basic literacy.
No, America is now living in the fascistsphere...
And I, of course, shall both respect and defend your right to so ask; while you, in turn, respect and defend my right to say "no." Nothing could be fairer, ultimately.
So: how 'bout those Phillies, huh...? ;)
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