Posted on 06/18/2010 12:01:06 PM PDT by Zakeet
I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet he is always, reliably, consistently mediocre. His speech on oil was no better or worse than his speech on race. Yet the Obammyboppers who once squealed with delight are weary of last year's boy band. At the end of the big Oval Office address, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and the rest of the MSNBC gang jeered the president. For a bewildered Obama, it must have felt like his Ceausescu balcony moment. Had they caught up with him in the White House parking lot, they'd have put him up against the wall and clubbed him to a pulp with Matthews' no-longer-tingling leg.
So what? He always "disappoints." What would have been startling would have been if he hadn't "disappointed." His eve-of-election rally for Martha Coakley "disappointed" the Massachusetts electorate so much they gave Ted Kennedy's seat to a Republican. His speech for Chicago's Olympic bid "disappointed" the Oslo committee so much they gave the games to Pyongyang, or Ouagadougou, or any city offering to build a stadium with electrical outlets incompatible with Obama's prompter. Be honest, guys, his inaugural address "disappointed," too, didn't it? Oh, in those days you still did your best to make the case for it. "He carries us from meditative bead to meditative bead, and invites us to contemplate," wrote Stanley Fish in The New York Times. "There is a technical term for this kind of writing – parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as 'the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating ... the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.'"
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Thanks! That is my work, and I do have it set up as actual bumper stickers.
We must neuter him in November. It doesn’t matter his performance 40% or his crimes...40% will still adore him and follow and defend him. How do we dissolve this planter’s wort?
It looks great (sounds weird to say that about anything that has carter on it!) But you know what I mean...!
FReegards!
mrkd
Listening to and reading the left, one notes that there is much enthusiasm for "punishing America" -- because we've had it "too good, for too long".
I've never understood this kind of thinking. And you doubtless don't either.
You'd think all of them must be living in a commune, off of an organic garden, growing their own weed. And they're vegetarians. Their computers must be rigged to bicycle generators.
They're ungrateful cretins and f#$*ing crazy, is what they are.
Mark, thank you for my new tagline.
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are! 
Arial-black, 16-point LOL!!
The thought crossed my mind that the fact that this was Carville saying this must carry some significance, for Machine Clinton to allow some daylight to be shown between their serried ranks and The One.
Remember, too, that Rahm is supposed to be leaving in the middle future here somewhere. That's been in he back of my mind for a while. When I first heard it, I thought it must be just Rahm wanting to "move on" ...... but now, hmmmmm.
Actually, Transocean owns a piece, too -- it eventuated that their rig crew made some unauthorized field modifications to the controls of their blowout preventer stack and kill lines. They were not, as they say in the industry, "100% API" (American Petroleum Institute, i.e. "standard").
Halliburton may also own a sliver for selling BP a "magic" new cement formula which may have failed under testing conditions in the "Macondo" well.
LOL, in more ways than one! -- and here I thought the Greek convention theme referred only to his favorite propensities, not his platform.
When I was much younger my parents had an album by Johnny Horton which we played constantly. Such great songs! The Battle of New Orleans, North To Alaska, Sink the Bismarck, Comanche, plus many more...
Variation on a post turtle???
“It Takes A Spillage”
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LOL!!! Good one.
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Perhaps. Fact is, we don't know. And won't know until all the facts come out.
In the meantime, BP bears the ultimate responsibility. Even though, in fact, it may bear none of the blame.
Before all this started, I was saying the same thing. And I guess I still think we needed a swift kick in the ass. But nevertheless, my aim is for us to get up and out of it as soon as possible, and these b@stards are in the way.
On the other hand, sometimes I believe THIS:
“Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind….”
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