who needs prose when Boehner's wearing a thistle-colored tie?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Boehner's got a great glower. I love how he looks disgusted over every little bit of good news or silver lining. He just won't be happy until the economy is back in the shitter.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
had this thread open when Barack Obama said "my flaws, of which there are many"
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:11 (nine years ago) link
Wtf is this bread bag speech?
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Oh I get it, nowadays we can't afford a bread bag
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
I'll have to listen to this tomorrow, am I missing anything
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
POTUS proposes, Boehner dozes.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
did anybody yell "you lie!" yet
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
The POTUS is laughing, goodbye, goodbye
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
I've listened/watched all or nearly all his SOTU speeches and his delivery in each was identical. When you realize that no modern president will risk venturing into the higher flights of rhetoric for a SOTU, you learn to swallow your disappointment and listen for any scrap of matter that is a) specific, b) interesting in a non-horrific way, and c) achievable. There's at most one or two of these extremely dim highlights you can glean, at best. I can recall none from tonight's speech.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
He just won't be happy until the economy is back in the shitter.
back huh
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Actually, when he asked early on, rhetorically, if it was fair that the wealthy kept getting richer at the expense of everyone else, or something along those lines, some voice did yell out "no!"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
As boring as you'd expect. I thought "I know, because I won" was funny, though--played that for my class.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Tea Party response. Nothing exciting, but I really hope that he bellowed TEAM every time the word appeared.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Warmed over lines, unworthy of the NYT's slobbering profile of the speechwriter, but at last he mentioned POVERTY and stopped mentioning MIDDLE CLASS MIDDLE CLASS so much. Also: he didn't look as shrunken as his last few teevee appearances.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
p4reene back and on fiyuh!
http://gawker.com/the-state-of-the-union-is-dumb-hacks-writing-garbage-sp-1680681848
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Poverty x1 (in an international context), Middle-class x7 (Middle east x2) - according to a quick search through the transcript.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
NYT's slobbering profile of the speechwriter
In terms of craftsmanship, it was about as good an effort as one can achieve when one is confined to expressing every idea to a 6th grader's vocabulary and understanding. US politics descended to such ultra simplistic Dick-and-Jane-see-Spot-run stylings in our political speeches a long time ago.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
nothing predestined about that.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
It is predestined, if everyone involved thinks their primary audience is made up of simple-minded, grossly ignorant people who must be cajoled and flattered, but never made to think.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B72Vsn3IAAEjTKN.mp4
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
the comments in the youtube video where i watched this, whew
Man, I hate people
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
youtube comments are the worst type of comments
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Alex p otm
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 22 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
just in case you thought Obama wasn't as close to the Saudi royal family as our last commander-in-chief
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/27/king-salmans-shady-history-saudi-arabia-jihadi-ties/?utm_content=buffer06ac1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is King Salman?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
http://imgsrv2.aramcoexpats.com/pipeline/sa_news/other_media/AK_003.jpg
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
a few weeks before FDR went to the Great Oasis too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
you'd think w/ oil prices + obama's full court press to reestablish diplomatic relationships w/ iran we wouldn't be so beholden to the saudis but i guess we still are!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
at least we got some quality Michele Obama side-eye out of it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
great pic of O with Condi and Jim Baker greeting His Majesty. Thank God for our "two" parties.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSezzirJs_k
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 31 January 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
1:35-2:35 of that was amazing footage
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Saturday, 31 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Cue Morbs:
Barack Obama was "bullshitting" his opposition to gay marriage and support for civil unions during his 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new book authored by former senior White House adviser David Axelrod.
Time magazine reported Tuesday that the longtime Obama confidant said in his new book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics," that he counseled then-senator Obama to soften his position on gay marriage for political reasons.
"Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,’” Axelrod wrote, as quoted by Time.
Obama had stated his support for legalizing gay marriage on a 1996 questionnaire while running for the Illinois state Senate. But he said repeatedly on the campaign trail in 2008 that he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Publicly stating opposition to gay marriage took its toll on Obama, who Axelrod wrote "routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews."
"I’m just not very good at bullshitting," Obama told Axelrod after one of those events, as quoted by Time.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
When it comes time to campaign, they all have to defer to the Christan right, and most of them capitulate. I don't think anything is going to change until someone has the balls to confront them.
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
or the cunt
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
did anyone ever believe he was opposed to gay marriage? what in his background would indicate such a socially conservative position? what was the point?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
his 1995 position was well known in 2004.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
has gotten way better at bullshitting (see odious New Mexico refugee detentions piece in last Sunday's NYT Mag, as he makes mewling sounds about migrant children)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
a reminder that obama is good at alienating allies outside the middle east too:http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/americas-frustration-with-south-korea/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
Almost as nauseating apologizing for "collateral damage" as he is for causing it, ain't he?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 03:09 (eight years ago) link
As always, it depends upon the apology and what's behind it. Maintaining an empire through military force is always pretty nauseating. Somebody said back a few centuries ago (I could track down the quote, if necessary) that 'the ruler who cannot dissimulate his feelings cannot rule for long'.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Friday, 24 April 2015 05:46 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/14/obama-i-m-like-nixon-reagan.html
― Mordy, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/07/15/opinion/15friedman1web/15friedman1web-videoSixteenByNine1050.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
pres obama: *don't look at his jowls don't look at his jowls*thomas friedman: in my book the world is flat--pres obama: i read your weakass book, jowlface *shit*
― not a garbageman, i am garbage, man (m bison), Thursday, 16 July 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
obama describing a globe w his hands there; tom not buying it
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 16 July 2015 07:37 (eight years ago) link
has advisers who say
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/politics/with-high-profile-help-obama-plots-life-after-presidency.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Ideally, one adviser said, a person in Kenya could put on a pair of virtual reality goggles and be transported to Mr. Obama’s 2008 speech on race in Philadelphia.
― j., Monday, 17 August 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
.. do you not reckon they might be interested?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
they can watch it on their phones like everyone else
― j., Monday, 17 August 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Spielberg held the president spellbound, guests said, when he spoke about the use of technology to tell stories.
― marcos, Monday, 17 August 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link