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National Review asks why Obama reads critically acclaimed fiction instead of Jonah Goldberg

I was e-mailing with some friends about John Bolton — the prospect of a presidential run by him. I found myself saying, “It’s hard to see how he wins the nomination. But, you know? I could see him winning the general. I may be on crack, but I can see it. These are perilous times, at home and abroad. Americans may see the virtue of — indeed, the need for — electing someone like Bolton. He is strong medicine.”

I then thought of something Phil Gramm told me, some years ago. It was 2001, and the great Texas senator had just announced his retirement. He and I had a little “exit interview,” so to speak. I asked about his presidential candidacy in 1996.

He said, “I was a poor candidate. I did a bad job. There’s no one to blame but myself.” Moreover, “America was never going to elect me unless there was a crisis. And people didn’t see a crisis in 1996. I was the wrong person at the wrong time. And there may never have been a right time for me.” (For the article in question, go here.)

Let me repeat some of those words: “America was never going to elect me unless there was a crisis.” Well, in 2012, we have an opening, I believe, for a Gramm, for someone who is strong — and wonderful, glorious — medicine.

strong and glorious mustache

that is a really creepy excerpt xp

He and I had a little “exit interview,” so to speak.

;)

john bolton reminds me of capt kangaroo

http://www.americatoday.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/john-bolton.jpg

http://timstvshowcase.com/kangaroo.jpg

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275504/provocative-picture-daniel-foster

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lol

Prairie Reader : 08/25/11 12:40

The Bam photo was taken two days ago at the Vineyard.

"Jobs, Libya, downgrade, Irene: Whatevuh!

Apparently this was meant to be serious.

He's using a connotation of "depravity" which was third or fourth in the list of definitions.

i.e. he wants to create the impression that the poor are depraved on people who won't use a dictionary.

If an American works hard, completes their education, gets married, and stays married, then they will rarely — very rarely — be poor.

And if they get a job that pays well and gives benefits, and stay at that job, and put money away every month into a bank account - the odds of being poor drop even more so.

I like to picture them rubbing their chins while pondering these solutions, as if they have been gifted with some clarity that has eluded society for hundreds of years.

pokerknave
: 08/25/11 12:14

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It is going to be Obama v Paul. Perry is too gay, Bachmann is too feminine and Romney is a mormon.

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I wonder if they thought that when they opened the Corner to comments they were thinking it'd all be WFB-style wits that they'd attract.

incredibly the comments just get stupider. wish i was surprised by the racist joeks under that 2 photos post. they should change the name to The Barrel - as in bottom-scraping

the posts aren't exactly WFB-style wit either. oh wait he opposed civil rights on the grounds that blacks were intellectually inferior and suggested people with aids should be branded...

still it's funny in a pathetic way when they try to hawk moth-eaten old copies of WFB's tomes on the corner: "we've just uncovered 75 copies of Bill's 16th memoir about sailing"

we've got a whole box of one of his potboiler spy novels! there's a sex scene, get 'em before k-lo tears out those pages!

with her teeth

rick perry, age 60, barack obama, age 50:
http://i.imgur.com/18fet.jpg

that is one of my all time favorite photos of rick perry

i hope it travels the world

If an American works hard, completes their education, gets married, and stays married, then they will rarely — very rarely — be poor.

And if they get a job that pays well and gives benefits, and stay at that job, and put money away every month into a bank account - the odds of being poor drop even more so.

this is awesome. i want to introduce additional clauses that enrich the portrait of the hard-working, school-abiding, marriage-abiding american citizen.

Yeah I was thinking of trolling with "where does commander in chief fit in the military hierarchy?"

the 'provocative picture' really stakes a lot on trying to elicit outrage through obama's choice of hat. like i don't know why you'd choose that pic other than, fuckin kids and their damn hats.

The recent French bio of HP Lovecraft posits that he was so memorable b/c he channeled all his energies into creating that universe since he had effectively "failed at life."

I wonder at what point or how much you have to fail at life(and lack the talent) to funnel the rest of your pathetic existence into pouring out your ressentiment into a regular NRO column.

Buckley's spy novels are kind of hilarious (the love interests of his thinly disguised analogue include Queen Elizabeth II and Vladimir Nabokov's fictional daughter) but not quite as much as E. Howard Hunt's

are they any good though?

the first couple held my interest well enough but they swiftly become worse and worse (by the end his hero is facing down kim philby in a FINAL BATTLE)

i read them for a university paper about right-wing espionage novels though (such as Bulldog Drummond) so it's not like i had a choice

Rick Perry =

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/rich-texan-the-simpsons.jpg

lolll

i keep thinking about the what obama's reading piece, days later

it really sums up so many things

and omg now i learn that i had the writer's brother for a course once and that guy was a tool.

the argument doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be made. you know? ritualized box-ticking.

great headline

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275699/militant-norwegians-not-suspected-clifford-d-may

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/276197/tale-two-declines-mark-steyn

"Even better, this exquisite love song is sung not by some bling-dripping braggart hoodlum of the rap fraternity but by the quintessential child-man of contemporary pop culture, ex-Mouseketeer Justin Timberlake."

Guys who confidently bellow along with Enrique’s “F**king You” no longer quite know how to ask a girl for a chocolate malt at the soda fountain.

These are difficult issues for social conservatives to write about. When we venture into this terrain, we’re invariably dismissed as uptight squares who can’t get any action. That happens to be true in my case, but Laura Ingraham has the advantage of being a “pretty girl,” as disgraced Congressman Charlie Rangel made the mistake of calling her on TV the other day in an interview that went hilariously downhill thereafter. So, she has a little more credibility on this turf than I would. She opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall — zombie teens texting, a thirtysomething metrosexual having his eyebrows threaded, a fiftysomething cougar spilling out of her tube top, grade-schoolers in the latest “prostitot” fashions — and then embarks on a lively tour of American cultural levers, from schools to social media to churches to Hollywood.

Jesus Christ these fuckin ppl

She opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall

Which of course consists entirely of selective illustrations to prove her point, which depended on characterizing what she saw in the most lurid terms possible.

obv i'm naive but i was actually kinda surprised when the entire nro staff and affiliated axes got behind this coulter manque as if her dashed-off book about how ke$ha is crass and teenagers use communications devices were some sort of weighty expose of where the hands have come to on the clock

because they've been bringing it up a lot

ooh ooh though there's a new episode of Peter Robinson Looks Puzzled!

[Approved commenter] denroy
: 09/03/11 08:40

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I've often been confused by lesbians who date really ugly chicks who try to look and act male. What's the point?

ahahaahahahahah

I heard two dudes on the subway have the exact conversation, and then a stranger chimed in in agreement

few days ago

ugh

I've often been confused and fetishistically fascinated yet ultimately uninterested in lesbians who date really ugly chicks who try to look and act male. anyone who is different from me as a person. What's the point?

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, September 3, 2011 4:06 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

with a side of "i can only understand women's lives in terms of how fuckable i find them," i guess