Before the fall brings us down, before the election season begins in earnest with all its nastiness and vulgarity, before the next batch of stupid scandals and gaffes, before Sarah Palin tries to convert her movie into reality and Joe Biden resumes his imitation of an embarrassing uncle and Newt and Callista Gingrich creep us all out, can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.(via reader Warren via Tina Korbe)
Friday, July 15, 2011
Obamessiah Suck-Up of the Day
In the continuing series, from Stephen Marche in the July 12th Esquire:
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Well, proof positive that (for some of us) phrases like "... a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph ..." works just as well as ipecac.
Blecch!
So far, it's the Obemessiah Suck-Up of the Century.
Yes, Minimus, I was just saying the same thing myself to Squealer here just a moment ago. You should sing that song for Boxer, but I can't find him anywhere this morning.
>> can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate...
Piss Christ...
or
Virgin Mary in Elephant Dung...
Or (just to show my deeply capable postmodern artistic geeeenyus):
A pile of stinking week-old human feces sitting in a pool of mixed piss and pig's blood titled "Corporate Amerikkkkkkka"?
I mean after all -- if you're going to compare The Big 0's postmodern liberal accomplishments to anything artistic, ya gotta keep it in postmodern liberal art concepts to really, really get it right.
...Know what I mean?
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