http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/1116/Obama-s-Of-Thee-I-Sing-hits-bookstore-shelves
― goole, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't followed us politics closely enough to really evaluate the bromwich/lrb piece but i do find his reading of obama persuasive, as with the nyrb stuff of his i've read
his psychologizing seems to follow from his premise -- obama's failures follow from his preference for a parapolitical abstraction, a disdain for instrumental politics, which is pretty curious and worth investigating
you could say those traits were visible all along, but he seemed cannier than that in the primaries and campaign, whereas now he seems to tolerate people being kinda with and kinda against him
there ought to have been an embargo on any administration official using the word ~bipartisanship~ from the moment they got in the door
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 November 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Obama didn't help his case by appointing the likes of Geithner and Summers -- it's pretty hard for those paying attention to take seriously any claims of "change we can believe in" when you appoint people who were enablers in the economic shitstorm that's now raging. maybe that inability to turn swine into pearls is a political flaw?!?
― deutsche Scheisse prawns (Eisbaer), Friday, 26 November 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
if he hadnt appointed ppl who were at least tenuously connected to the business world he would have had an entirely different shitstorm
― challop and a muff (deej), Friday, 26 November 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
so?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
remember the brouhaha over Geithner's taxes?
Upon giving Medal of Freedom to Poppy Bush:
"Like the remarkable Barbara Bush, his humility and his decency reflects the very best of the American spirit," Obama said of the father of the president he campaigned against so vigorously in 2008. "This is a gentleman."
I wish you gentlemen could get to know each other in The Hague.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"the remarkable Barbara Bush"
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope he means the daughter.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
poppy probably doesn't hold anything against Barry for campaigning against Dumb Son. mama bush, on the other hand, is mean as cat piss.
― Phuc Duong Bich (Eisbaer), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
at least the vicious old cur said Sarahbarbie "should stay in Alaska."
but really, Obama is such a shit, is the topic.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
DINNER?
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/15/obama/index.html
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
wow, a huge scandal there
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
it annoyed me cause for half a second I thought it was gonna be some actual friend inviting me to dinner
― iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Though I think it's quite revealing, I don't really have any objection to Obama's efforts to persuade Wall Street and other oligarchs to (once again) fill his coffers with cash. Virtually every politician, especially at this level, is going to troll for money wherever they can get it, if, for no other reason, than to deprive their opponents of that cash. I just don't want to have to once again endure 18 months of the propagandizing (and false) mythologizing conceit that this is some sort of special campaign propelled by plucky, small-donor enthusiasts driving him back to the White House $5 and $10 at a time so that he can stand up on their behalf to special interests.
getting cash from wall street = all politicians do it, no objection"propaganda" and "mythologizing conceit" = blog post
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
glenn really needs to stop putting two spaces after his periods
max beat me to the pasting job
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
you jaded kids and yer 60 favorite Pavement songs
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
I think a shameless lying fuck trying to be the Change Agent again is balls worth noting, max
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad Greenwald raises these flags, but isn't Obama's mythical aura really a strawman by this point? Other than clemenza on this board, I know no liberal who still thinks Obama deserves admiration.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
i got the Dinner? email, but I don't open those
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
That Obama courts the Wall Street crowd -- a fact obvious since 2007 -- is less offensive to me than his extra-constitutional war-making in Libya and Yemen.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Brunch?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred, have you talked to any libs who arent gonna vote for him?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
Drinks?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
Kool-Aid for all
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
Beach?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
admiration /= not voting for him. Remember our beloved Billy boy?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
you mean cuz he got ppl who don't like blowjobs to vote for him?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
man you guys are not voting for obama so much
― iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
he courted swingdick voters.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
if only you could not vote for obama more than you're gonna not vote for obama
Bloomberg 2016, amirite
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not voting for Obama either.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to vote for obama, but then he used a mythologizing conceit in his re-election campaign
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol my vote for obama cancels out morbs non-vote
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
omama there goes that bam
― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
none of you are of sufficient power to cancel out anything I generate, actively or passively
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
no im p sure you only get one vote & so do i
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
what if he doesn't vote
― iatee, Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
you can't cancel out a 0
http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000003878597-oc3w2e-crop.jpg?10e4608
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
I am not a number, I am a free man
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 02:42 (23 minutes ago)
whoa
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Dr Morbius IS the electoral college
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i read this and nodded
― can rapacious womankind get real here for a second (reddening), Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
*resets bookmark*
― bite this display name (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Obama this morning, echoing LBJ: "There goes the ILX vote for a generation."
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
feel like he's ignoring us. no big speeches lately, or worldclass villain kills
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
HE'S A FAN OF THE BEARS
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link