President Dreamboat Eyes
I bet y’all thought I was going to go for Julia tonight, but I had to lead with sarong.
She talked about how Obama walked around his bedroom bare-chested, dressed in a blue and white sarong while working on a New York Times crossword puzzle.
“I open the door that Barack keeps closed to his room and enter in a warm, private space pervaded by a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits — running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing,” Cook wrote.
Um. Ew.
Okay, but here’s the spooky bit:
Cook said when she told Obama she loved him, he responded: “Thank you.”
Thank you?! Oh, I understand there are times when saying “I love you, too” is a commitment too far, but I can think of a dozen ways to say that that aren’t quite so…malignantly narcissistic. Phew.
Also, I’ll cut the guy some slack on this one: he had a nomadic childhood and mixed heritage, so it’s probably legit to spend a little time chewing on identity issues. But the article makes him sound like some kind of freaky self-conscious PR construct.
Have you ever noticed young lefties spend lots of time working out who they are while young righties are working out what they want to do?
Right. Now we can rag on poor Julia if you want.
May 3, 2012 — 10:33 pm
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Barry O’Badass
US President Barack Obama described the lonely decision he made to mount a Navy SEAL raid to kill Osama bin Laden and called the daring escapade the “most important single day” of his tenure.
In an interview to be broadcast later Wednesday, Obama talked about the nerve jangling moments he endured as he watched the operation, the cloak of secrecy that enveloped it and the moment he saw a photo of the dead Al-Qaeda leader.
“I did choose the risk,” Obama told NBC News anchor Brian Williams, in the latest episode of a nearly week-long commemoration of the anniversary of the bin Laden killing.
Oh, my giddy aunt! A week-long commemoration?
May 2, 2012 — 8:56 pm
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Oh, how I love the easy ones
Oh, THANK you, Obama for your wonderful ham-handedness. In case you missed it in the comments, here is the new Forward logo in white on black and here it is black on white. Traced from the video, so it’s pretty close. These are probably big enough to roll your own t-shirts and bumper stickers, but I can supply other sizes or formats (including .psd) should anyone require.
Hm. It just occurred to me — “forward” is another way to say “stay the same.” A neat bookend to the “change” slogan of 2008, no?
Speaking of stupid, Obama could have had days of positive coverage on the anniversary of the bin Laden raid, without a peep of partisan dissent — if only he could’ve played it like a grownup. But no, he had to go and imply that Romney wouldn’t be man enough to, um, return a phone call. Handing Romney a personally autographed permission slip to utter the bestest one-liner of the political season:
Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.
Grossly unfair to Jimmy Carter, but it was wicked funny. Also, fuck it — Jimmy Carter.
Errors not so funny: is it a good idea to observe the anniversary of OBL’s death in Afghanistan? Even the Afghanis inclined to approve of us and disapprove of him can’t be filled with joy at the killing of a co-religionist. People take these things personally. And the Talibunnies must be fucking furious.
I admit, I’m lost in the regional/sectarian nuances of the Ummah, but this strikes me as a gesture that makes lives in danger more endangered.
May 1, 2012 — 10:26 pm
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