Jan 20th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Disrespect
K-Lo:
Wow. Well, my inaugural good feelings were definitely spoiled a bit by the “Na Na Hey Hey … Goodbye” outburst on the Mall just now. How shamefully disrespectful. Keith Olbermann even thought so!
Wow. Well, my inaugural good feelings were definitely spoiled a bit by the realization that George W. Bush was heading off to live out his life in a lavish home as a multi-millionaire retiree rather than going to stand trial in the Hague. But hopefully Americans can put our differences aside and work together for a better future or something.
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January 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
No, that’s not shamefully disrespectful. THAT’S shamefully disrespectful.
APS
January 20th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Does that town in Vermont still have an arrest warrant out for him and Dick?
January 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Wow, everyone at the coffee shop I was at this morning sang the very same thing; it felt great. I’m with you regarding the Hague.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
It wasn’t like they were standing outside the VP residence chanting for Dick Cheney to get out of Joe Biden’s house.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
He should not stand trial at Den Haag. He should stand trial in the US. The ICC is only for use if the home country can’t or won’t prosecute.
Maximum penalties are, uhm, higher under US law for crimes against humanity than anything Yurp would dish out.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Ha! Great post, and my thoughts exactly.
Don’t right-wingers think we are responsible for what happens to us? Bush earned this song.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
How shamefully disrespectful.
You have to earn respect.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
KLo can shove Rush Limbaugh up her ass. Or vice versa.
Is that respectful enough?
January 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The only thing inappropriate about singing that song is that it wasn’t accompanied by a shower of shoes.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I thought it was great, and a fitting farewell to a sports fan like Bush. The folks were taunting, but joyful. After the way Bush and the GOP leaders treated black people, he should be thnakful there were no pitchforks, and that it was all so joyous.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
All of us were on pins and needles with concern for Kathryn Jean Lopez’s inaugural good feelings, too. Maybe Jay Nordlinger can let us know how Aaron Copland would hate to hear his music used for such political ends. I’m going to miss the looney right — at least John Cornyn is there to make sure Hillary gets confirmed 97-2 in a roll call vote as opposed to by unanimous consent.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Wow, Nordlinger even worse than I predicted:
“1. Interesting musical combo: Itzhak, Yo-Yo, Anthony McGill, and Gabriela . . . Was ethno-racial variety a consideration? Perish the thought — perish the thought fast.”
Then why bring it up, jackass?
January 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Drudge has a link to a video of people booing Bush as he enters the inaugural ceremonies. The anchors, whoever they were, were absolutely horrified and falling over themselves to talk about how terrible it was.
Somehow the idea that the president is the sovereign has sunk into the American subconscious. The MSM enforces this. If the people want to boo the president, the people will boo the fucking president. It’s not any talking head’s responsibility to correct us on our etiquette.
Assholes.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I’m usually a stickler for the whole “respect people who hold power democratically, even if you don’t agree with them politically” thing. I feel pretty strongly about this ever since an older friend gave me a stern talking-to after, in a moment of adolescent excess, I loudly participated in a chant against a certain Republican office holder. I felt like I had acted a bit inappropriately and felt bad about it.
While I thought the shoe-throwing incident was shameful on the part of the thrower, I think the chant at the helicopter was one of the very few occasions where otherwise tacky behavior was perfectly appropriate.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Is it me, or is Al sounding more and more like the IncoherentLoser that OccasionallyPosts strange nonsequitors?
January 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I thought the media was overly respectful of Bush during the inauguration.
The guy illegally wiretapped, tortured, politicized every aspect of governance, & let a major American city drown.
He should have had to sit on stage in manacles.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
I was deeply saddened by the chorus of “Who Ate All The Pies?” when Kathryn Jean Lopez ventured out onto the streets of DC. Doubled over in peals of sadness.
Though I’d have preferred Bush to be sent off with “Fuck Off Back To Texas” to the tune of The Conga.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
So the story is that Kathryn Lopez was willing to let bygones by bygones and make a good-faith effort to work with the Obama administration going forward, until a few yahoos chanting on the mall scuttled the whole deal for her. Uh-huh.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
“respect people who hold power democratically,”
Well, Bush doesn’t qualify since he was “elected” by vote shenanigans in both 2000 and 2004, not to mention completely eviscerating the Constitution from day one.
There is no limit to the insults that should be tossed at Bush for the rest of his life.
Fuck him.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
BradL: it’s you.
Well, then, perhaps I should enumerate the similarities.
1. The comment had no particular relationship with the post.
2. The comment was strangely concerned with Matt’s wishes.
3. The comment contained a link to utterly laughable claims, making only vague and broad descriptions (beyond being basically incendiary) about what the actual content of the claim was.
4. The link itself was to a claim that was so laughably absurd that it was a waste of time.
If it had been about immigration, you’d have hit all the squares on the bingo card.
You’ve completely gotten off your game, Al.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Is the media surprised that when you do bad things people stop liking you?
January 20th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
LOL, Nordlinger is hysterical and clearly knows little about classical music. That line-up? It’s to die for.
This is like suggesting I’d choose Michael Jordan to be on my intramural basketball team because I’m so totally PC.
They’re really coming unhinged today.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
21. Richard Steven Hack:
Yeah, that did give me some pause as I was typing my comment. No one more sincerely wishes to see Bush live out the rest of his years as a convicted war criminal than I do, but I still think in general allowing office holders to maintain some basic level of dignity in public is necessary to maintaining a peaceful republic.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
The parts in the elipsis were Nordlinger praising Anthony McGill’s brother and pointing out that he’s “written about” each of them in the past. He also went on to point out that Montero is Venezuelan wondered out loud whether she was imrpovising, because that’s totally how chamber music works.
So, basically, he presumably realizes this line-up is as good as it can gets (although he only specifically praises Montero despite doubting that she can read music what with her fiery latin temperment), but because only one of them is white (and a disabled Jew, no less), he had to make some affirmative action snark.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Disrespect K-Lo?
Bushit deserves a lot more than disrespect.
Frog march the murderous thieving felonious bastards off to the Hague in handcuffs and then we can start talking disrespect OK?
And yeah, put Barry in the cell next to Georgie ’cause both are war criminals.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
K-Lo is also unaware that Obama is left handed and sees “sinister” motives:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTBhMDQ4ODg1MTE2ZjY3ZTMyNzYzNjhjZTExZDg2ZDE=
January 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I was really hoping Obama’s inauguration speech would end with something along the lines of, “And put that man in chains!” while pointing at Cheney.
Maybe I’ll retreat to a fantasty where the only reason he didn’t was because Cheney was for some reason wheelchair bound.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
It gets better, as he village voice points out Nordlinger’s neo-Wagnerian commentary, and Nordlinger responds:
“My entire career — in countless articles on music and politics and the occasional crossing between the two — I have written against the intrusion of race and ethnicity into the arts.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjA4ZDIwNTQ3YzQwMTUyMzYxMDRjOGJmOTk2YjZlNzU=
I think I am in love.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Matt,
It could be worse, you could actually live in that neighborhood in the Dallas area. It is bad enough living anywhere near Dallas, but to have Bush move into your neighborhood would be a real bummer.
BTW, there is a channel called C-Span. It was devoid of punditry, the real bummer is listening to commentary while an historic event is proceeding before our eyes.
There were so many amazing things to talk about today, mostly related to the symbolism of our government and the transfer of power.
Small things: inside the Capitol, a camera reviewed the passing of our high officials. First House members, then Senate, etc. But the military guards kept their rifles down, butt on the ground, unless a president was passing. Then the rifle was raised. The president-elect also got raised rifles.
They also played trumpets before each former, current or future president was introduced. Obama got a multiple trumpet, plus drum role introduction. Did anyone on television point out these details?
Most interesting are the new limos. Five inch thick armor, the interior is air-tight. In the morning the limo had a strange indented circle on the passenger doors. What was this strange defect? Well, as the Obama’s left the Capitol in the afternoon, the presidential seal was filling the space.
(The limos are huge, and are in use for the first time today!)
January 20th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Well, if it’s relevant, the post you’re linking has a Total Logical Disconnect. How does the revelation that Obama gave him a choice of two posts imply a quid pro quo any more than Obama simply offering him the Vice Presidency?
January 20th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I think it was too bad we didn’t have a modern day Titus Pullo [ROME] yelling out:
“Hey, Cheney!
SUCK MY COCK!”
on national TV.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Wow. That Raul Groom piece is positively Menckenesque!
January 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
jesus, al, even by your standards this is apalling claptrap of the stupidest and most inane quality. why don’t you just go hang out with k-lo and stop revealing how insipid you really are.
even being a fan of phil simms doesn’t excuse your nonsense.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
If the market reacts like this every day of Obama’s Presidency, it’s going to be pretty bad!
Yeah, just after Bush’s wise economic stewardship has pushed the market to stratospheric new heights, along comes Obama and ruins everything. That really would be bad.
I’m not a regular reader or commenter here (although given Matt’s recent displays of fiery feistiness, I’m thinking I should be), so maybe some of you regulars can help me out with a question about your pet parody troll. Is there one of you who plays Al consistently? Or do you take turns, like each of you gets to be Al for a week? Or is it just a free-for-all, “I’m feeling very Al today, think I’ll chip in something Rush Limbaugh would come up with after a 4-day oxycontin bender” kinda thing? And if that’s how it works, is there some kind of competition to see who can come up with the stupidest comment possible within the parameters of the English language?
Whoever/whatever is behind it, it’s a singular achievement, and I applaud you/it.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I already refuted Sweet Al’s “Obama is a Criminal” meme earlier:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/inauguration_thread.php#comment-1036566
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/inauguration_thread.php#comment-1036592
January 20th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Re: My inaugural good feelings were definitely spoiled a bit by the fact that Barack Obama is a criminal.
Obama has yet to sit in the Oval Office and some hysterical drama queens on the Right are seeking to outdo the hysterical drama quens on the Left in the exercize of President Derangement Syndrome.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Al: The greater part of the last decade has been spoiled for me by the fact that my president was a WAR criminal.
May you enjoy this presidency as much as I enjoyed the last one.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
“Is there one of you who plays Al consistently?”
I’m not convinced that Al is a parody. The problem with Republicans these days is that they have become parodies of themselves. It’s getting hard to tell the difference between The Onion and The National Review. I know plenty of people who say the things Al says, and they actually mean it. They seem to be willfully suspending reality because they can’t bring themselves to recognize that reality conflicts with their long-held theories.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Al, this is one of those moments where I am reminded, once again, that your presence is only tolerated because your doppelganger on the Washington Monthly’s blog is much more absurd. You are a joke and a fool. Your outrage rings false, since you sat on your ass when the previous president authorized torture. You have to sit down and shut up now.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
“However, the position of Secretary of State is an appointed position, so offering someone to be Secretary of State is illegal.”
That’ll come as a surprise to George W. Bush, who was such a scofflaw that during the 2000 elections, he publicly promised to appoint Colin Powell Secretary of State. Talk about getting away red-handed!
Anyway, it’s obvious that you have no idea how this “offering someone to be Secretary of State” by Obama would constitute offering an appointment in exchange for support. The idea of a broken law tickles your fancy, so you’ll just go ahead and believe it. Nothing to see here.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
offering someone to be Secretary of State is illegal.
Fuck you. Prove it was offered in consideration for support, you miserable fucking cunt. You have no possible way of knowing it at all. Just like you never demonstrate even the beginnings of reading comprehension.
I mean… your mileage may vary.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I think Al is just busting chops.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Al is always busting chops. And no, nobody here takes turns being Al. We let Al be Al – that’s bad enough. Nobody else would want to be infected with that kind of thinking even in simulation.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Bush’s send-off was mild. He deserves to be marched off in shackles.
Wing nuts are grasping at straws here with the giving Biden a choice, thing. Where did they get the idea that that was illegal? Which dittohead started this one? It’s not even unethical—it’s just a smart hiring decision.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
You know what the great thing is?
The great thing is that no one need any longer give one faint damn what Kathryn Jean Lopez says, because as of today she has no influence. No one who has power, or is likely to have power, cares what she thinks.
There is, as of today, no longer any need to read or to think about or to ridicule Drudge or Jonah Lucianneson or Prof. Glenn insta-Reynolds or his glibertarian wife or Ann Coulter or the Anchoress or Michelle Malkin or Pam Atlas or John Hinderaker, or any of their ilk. None. They no longer matter.
I wonder what the Sadlynauts and Edroso and The Poor Man Institute will find to do for entertainment.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Since Bush apparently failed to pardon himself, Cheney, et al, there is no need to involve the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The ICC would only have jurisdiction if the U.S. can’t or won’t prosecute. The U.S. should prosecute – the Bush conspirators are America’s responsibility.
Besides, torture is a capital crime under U.S. law. At The Hague, the worst they could get would be life.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
The reality is that Al had gotten progressively stupider and more desperate since the 2006 elections. Up until then he was a pretty competent lawyerly thug who would have fit in well in the Soviet Union as a high-level apparatchik. Since then he’s been dwindling, and by this point he really is just a notch or two about Mr. Wacko. Sad.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Sanctimony, the last refuge of the scoundrel.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
It is only fitting that he entered office being jeered and leaving it the same way.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Al,
(1) Regarding the corruption statute linked in the AOL post that you mentioned in your post #12, do you think Obama was trying to “procure” Biden’s “support” by offering him the SOS (or VP) job? No — obviously Obama had the Dem nomination locked up by that time (July/August) and Biden would have campaigned for Obama in any case. Biden didn’t have anything to offer Obama financially, either. If the conduct Jill Biden described were criminal, then no candidate for executive office (and as far as I can tell, this statute covers all candidates, from federal to state to local) could ever have discussions with a potential appointee before the election, because then it might be construed to be a quid-pro-quo. Is that the regime you envision?
(2) In your post #35, are you attempting to argue that investors’ reaction to Obama’s inauguration resulted in the market sinking? Even if we assume ad arguendo that the financial markets don’t like Obama, your argument makes no sense, unless you think investors were expecting that Obama would have a heart attack this morning before noon, and a more corporate-profit-friendly president would take his place. (Incidentally, what happens if the president-elect dies before the inauguration? I don’t know) But that’s silly; investors’ expectations of his presidency were already priced into the market before today.
You often seem like a smart guy, but then sometimes you come on here with ridiculous statements that you can’t possibly sincerely believe.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
The nice thing is, at least for a little while, these guys don’t matter. They spewed neoconservative talking points for 8 damn years, they revealed themselves to be exactly who we thought they were, but now we get a break. They’re free to continue to peddle their busted-ass opinions, of course, but there’s no power behind them. For now.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
You often seem like a smart guy, but then sometimes you come on here with ridiculous statements that you can’t possibly sincerely believe.
I’ve seen him admit he doesn’t believe all the shit he says. He sees it as payback for whatever unfairness he thinks got directed at his political program by his enemies.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Al, don’t you profess to be a lawyer?
Here’s the relevant statute:
Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
So according to Al, Obama offered the SoS position for the purpose of procuring Joe Biden’s support for his candidacy. Because otherwise, Joe was on the fence. Yup – mulling over supporting the Republican McCain, or maybe Larouche…but along came Obama, and bribed him with the offer of SoS, and finally got Biden to jump on the Obama bandwagon.
Do you try to be this stupid?
January 20th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Are we really supposed to believe that K.Lo had “inaugural good feelings”?
…Or that she has any “good feelings” at all?
January 20th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Al, this is the kind of scandal only you can research.
Somehow Obama got Biden to campaign for the Obama-Biden ticket as if Biden himself was on the ticket.
How oh how could he have done that, unless there was something underhanded.
The MSM will never cover this though. It’s up to you, and you alone Al, to bring this to light.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Al,
Be grateful that Obama respects the rule of law. In my America, animals like you would be euthanized with a bullet to the back of the head and a shallow grave. If you were lucky.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I wonder what the Sadlynauts and Edroso and The Poor Man Institute will find to do for entertainment.
I think they’ll keep an eye of the crazies, just out of habit, and because the well of wingnut stupid never runs dry. But it becomes corrosive to dwell on people like Lopez and Goldberg and Malkin.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
My portfolio gained 40% today on the inverse fincial sector 3X ETF. Contrary to what Al says, or wants to knee-jerk believe, the market today had nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with the continuing implosion of the financial sector (if I wanted to be partisanly stupid about it I could easily blame it all on Bush, of course).
Some snippets about what was bothering the market today, via MarketWatch – maybe Al can tell us which of these had anything to do Obama:
For investors who might have thought the worst was over after the nation’s big three banks aired some dirty laundry last week, Tuesday provided clear evidence that the horror show continues, as well over half of the financial stocks in the bellwether S&P 500 Index lost more than 10% of their value.
State Street led the sector lower, losing more than half its market value after the firm unveiled a 71% drop in earnings and warned it may face $1 billion in fresh credit exposures.
State Street’s announcement sparked concern that the bank may have to raise new capital with a share sale that would further dilute existing shareholders.
State Street hinted Friday that trouble could be on the way, disclosing in an SEC filing after the market closed ahead of a long weekend that it faces liquidity risks and potential financial losses because of issues related to its long-term securities portfolio, its commercial paper dealings, and the unregistered cash collateral pools it operates.
The fall hurt shares of rivals Northern Trust and Bank of New York Mellon too.
Regions Financial also reported results Tuesday, and its $6 billion writedown showed there is little hope for relief to be found in the country’s smaller, mid-sized banks.
Analysts at S&P on Tuesday downgraded shares of PNC Financial to hold from buy and trimmed earnings estimates based on the overall climate in the banking sector.
“PNC shares are down sharply this month, as investors flee most bank stocks due to general concerns about oversized loan-loss provisions, securities writedowns and possible dividend cuts,” the firm wrote in a research note Tuesday.
PNC shares fell 41%.
And, Bank of America Corp. needs more than $80 billion in new common equity capital to support the huge amount of assets on its balance sheet, analysts at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, said on Tuesday.
After Bank of America and its newly acquired brokerage unit Merrill Lynch lost $17.1 billion in the fourth quarter, Bank of America enters 2009 with $61.7 billion of tangible common equity, supporting $2.4 trillion of tangible assets, the firm said.
“It would take over $80 billion of new common equity to reach even the low end of the range, and we believe Bank of America simply is not generating sufficient capital internally in this environment to put a dent in this size capital hole,” they wrote.
Friedman Billings too weighed in on Wells Fargo, saying the California firm will have to cut its dividend soon to rebuild capital.
Etc., etc.
You see, Al – there was a whole lot more going on today than the inauguration in DC.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Investors worldwide were so terrified of Obama’s misgoverance that they keep piling money into U.S. treasuries of which he is the de facto CEO of the corporation.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Don’t you see Ed Marshall? Foreign investors know Obama’s anti-business (socialist) policies will damage the ability of American companies to compete globally. By propping up this administration, they are in effect taking lease on a wrecking ball about to level the US economy! Then, they’ll be able to swoop in and buy up all these going concerns and liquidated assets. They’ll own our government, and our businesses!
January 21st, 2009 at 1:16 am
Al, some of us mean what we say here and elsewhere.
for example, i mean it completely when i say your argument today about the so-called criminal behavior of obama in discussing state with biden is so unutterably stupid as to suggest that you have nothing but contempt for the idea of words having meaning.
which, perhaps, i should have realized long ago.
we will, of course, someday see a period when stupid right-wing sloganeering is again ascendant, and at that point, al will be ready to contribute, but for now, this kind of nonsense is a good example of why thinking people have come to reject the republican party….
January 21st, 2009 at 1:31 am
“I don’t think I believe all the sh*t I say to any less extent than anyone else here, Matthew included.”
For the record, I believe everything I say, even the crazy shit. I have never claimed to be sane, I’ve only claimed to have knowledge. Al cannot maintain his license while being insane, the Bar ain’t that forgiving. But he isn’t a member of the Bar, is he? Look, we can all get arrested and argue our own cases, can’t we? But that doesn’t make anyone a lawyer. It only makes you crazier than me. And that’s pretty damn crazy. But however crazy some of us might be, we haven’t reached the level of insanity that our leaders have. If Cheney weren’t VP, he’d be in a padded room.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:38 am
“If Cheney weren’t VP, he’d be in a padded room.”
But he’ll be in his own undisclosed padded room, won’t he? They’ll only let him out in the safe location of Fox News.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:08 am
“For investors who might have thought the worst was over after the nation’s big three banks aired some dirty laundry last week,”
You know what, my gold is doing fine. Hasn’t moved for a while, but another movement will happen. And I’m buying uranium at a local low. It’ll take a while, but it will make money. Professional investors skoff at me for buying too early, but at least I know where things are going. They just sell too late. But they are professionals at offering bad advice. I only know one professional investor that does well. He’s done well for the last thirty years. Strangely, he uses astrology to do it. But if I had a few more million to play with, I’d still be way poorer than him. I know damn well he’s even crazier than I am, but I also know he’s a lot richer than me. Oh, and what happened in the last six months? I held my own, he tripled his money. How do you triple your money in this market? Bet against it. I like to make my own decisions, but I should bet with my friend instead. He has a simple saying: “I don’t give a fuck whether the market goes up or down. If it moves, I make money, if doesn’t, I have nothing to do.”
January 21st, 2009 at 6:02 am
It may not have been in the spirit of Obama’s attitude of with malice toward none, but it was well earned. At least I didn’t notice anybody waving good-bye to Bush with only one finger. He earned that too. Remember, another one of Obama’s themes was responsibility.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:22 am
Bush deserves all the “curses and maledictions” that can be dished out. But I was on the mall when this happened and thought it diminished the moment. The most profound rejoinder to Bush was Obama’s presence, Obama’s speech, and the massive turnout for it. It spoke for itself, and the chanting was just noise. A stony silence would have served better.
Ditto the guy in front of me who was screaming “homophobe” during Warren’s prayer. Unclassy, unnecessary, and diminishing a momentous occasion (the benediction of a new Pres) to be about himself.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:00 am
Likely nobody’s reading but:
The reason I didn’t write earlier, I woke up less than an hour ago, after 14 hours of solid sleep.
And the reason I slept so long was I was at the swearing in, just behind the reflecting pool.
Just wanted to write this because I was among those singing “Goodbye”, and I thought it fine taste.
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January 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
No Al.
The statute includes “…for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy…”
If Obama were looking for a vice president and asked Biden if he would prefer to be Secretary of State for the purpose of ruling him out as VP, that would be perfectly legal.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Not that anyone is going to bother reading the comments this far but…
Look, I am as happy as everyone else here to see Bush II leave office, but it was “bad form”. Look we won the election! We Won! Bush is leaving office! When you get to the endzone, act like you have been there before.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Obama’s message is that “we are one” and the “tired, old days of red states and blues states are now behind us”. So sad that this hopeful message was sullied by a deplorable display of partisan hatred for a man who (a) had the most racially diverse cabinet in the history of the country (and who arguably helped pave the way for an African-American President; and (b) helped funnel more money into Africa to combat AID’s than any other world power (he even won the sincere praise of Bono). Why ruin the power and spirit of yesterday’s sublime proceedings by spewing hatred? All this does is challenge the far right to return the hatred in kind when Obama stubmles (as he surely will).
For shame.
God bless President Obama. God bless George Bush. God bless us all, everyone.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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January 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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Yeah, like everyone here is living in a hobble in downtown Baghdad or Tijuana, just take another sip of that $5 latte and STFU.
He saved your asses, now kiss his.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
Al: So what you’re saying is, any time any presidential candidate tells anyone, anywhere, that he is considering appointing that person to his cabinet, it is, ipso facto, a crime?
Damn, man, I’ve seen you post on various blogs literally hundreds of times, but that right there has got to be the stupidest comment yet.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Bush Is the product of the American people. When most of the population are ignorat and shallow thinkers living on burgers and getting Obeeeeeesssss, Is what you get “A BUSHY IDOIT”
Yeah, One more thing, to be accepted, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BE ENSLAVED BY THE ZIONIST JEWS.
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