Yes. Unfortunately, not everybody can afford to buy their daughter a horse. Go, you man-of-the-people, go!
I strongly approve of any politician with a vehicle that has (a) an ejector seat, (b) a normal roof, and (c) a conspicuous but poorly labeled ejector button.
Oh come on now, that’s not always the case.
Sometimes they’re just grossly incompetent.
Have you ever *seen *England? It’s tiny. They probably just *ride *them everywhere.
Sport-utility vehicles, mostly - Range Rovers and the like. Not pickups, though.
Whether he needs to haul a horse around or not, I’m betting a Massachusetts state senator doesn’t *just *own a shitty pick-up truck. But, he couldn’t be caught showing up to a conservative rally driving a BMW now could he? Chrissakes, he might as well get out of it wearing a Che Gueverra thirt with big mouthful of arugula.
He’s a real estate attorney. He might have a fleet of shitty pickup trucks.
Real estate attorney? Aren’t they the ones who draw up – or at least their office people draw up – the notices threatening tenants with eviction for trying to withold the $600 bucks they paid out of their own pockets to fix a broken toilet intake valve?
Yes, but they’re also the people you call when you get notices threatening tenants with eviction for trying to withold the $600 bucks they paid out of their own pockets to fix a broken toilet intake valve?
That wasn’t “turning anything around,” it was a stupid non-sequitur, and an ignorant one as well, since Obama is already a tax cutter.
Oh, and pretty much anyone can afford a truck, so that part isn’t even true.
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Dukakis’ crappy old snowblower didn’t help *him *none.
I think we could say Massachusetts voted in global warming–for the whole country! I will say that when California voted in Arnold Schwarzenegger, we (a) didn’t inflict this folly on the rest of the country, and (b) Arnold, in spite of his own notorious Hummer, has been a lot more forward looking and constructive with regard to environmental policy than one would have expected.
So we keep voting in faux cowboys and faux pioneers when the majority of us live in cities. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were urban faux cowboys, because at least urban cowboys have a more relevant perspective on how and where most of us live.
Modifying one of his Hummers to run on biodiesel didn’t suddenly make the others green, you know. He has been surprisingly environment-friendly, but it seems to be more in the arena of environmental gestures than actual progress.
What kind of rich, elitist cocksucker can buy his daughter a bunch of horses and drive them around to snooty-ass “equestrian” events? Doesn’t that completely undermine his “everyman” schtick?
Yes, but he makes up for it by slaughtering one or two of the horses occasionally and having a cookout for the neighbors.
Do people even read my posts anymore?
I find it interesting owning a horse is considered elitist these days. When I was growing up in rural Virginia a lot of my neighbors owned horses. Most of these neighbors were extremely below the poverty line, and many of them lived the lifestyle they lived because a huge portion of their household food intake was self-produced (like everyone in that area, a lot of canning was done as well.)
Most of the horses weren’t paid for, either, many of them were acquired through barter and trade. They also weren’t ridden by people who were competitive equestrians nor were they ever transported much further than they were ridden on their own four legs.
I also own a pickup truck but rarely drive it. It has a lot of miles on it because it’s sole function is for hauling things that aren’t worth hiring movers to haul, for that reason it has 150,000 miles on it and since it is 100% a utility vehicle I don’t care that it’s old or lacking in the fashion department.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Brown’s pickup truck is similar to mine in that regard. I make a good living and I own a nice car that is definitely more expensive than the average American’s vehicle, the pickup I own is a utility vehicle and not any attempt for me to put on some odd illusion that I’m someone I’m not.
That’s not it at all. It’s his sly, subtle way of saying “You know, if you vote for me, I might help you move sometime.”
Then when you sign a new lease, where are they?
Doing some research it looks like Brown drives a GMC Canyon, not a particularly popular truck, and also at retail of $30,000+ not on the cheap end of pickup trucks, either (or on the super-expensive.)
The F-150 is America’s best selling pickup (at least it was last I checked), and while with options it can be upwards of $50,000, the configuration most people buy it in only sets you back $25,000 or so.
Considering it has 200,000 miles on it and it is a 2005 GMC Canyon, I’d say Brown probably actually uses it every day. That’s a hefty amount of mileage for an infrequently used vehicle.
I’m not remotely sure why, but I’ve long wanted a ratty, old pickup. Or a new one, since in my care it would be ratty and old sooner than later. Then I realized I’d become known as a guy with a truck and, valuing my weekends and back more than an inexplicable desire, I got over it.
Now everybody in DC is gonna call Brown when they move or buy a new sofa.