Damn! Imagine if they had. Would have been HUGE!
Y-M-C-A! L & C-O!
Simply rocks.
Satire can’t be explained. You either get it or you don’t. You apparently don’t.
I thought he was just carrying the absurdity of the notion anyone would adhere to such shallow principles in their voting decision to the extreme. I saw it merely as pointing to the ridiculousness of stereotyping by showing the impractical path such beliefs would lead one down. Granted, it also gave me a little smile.
Well, if you want to boast about the ability to incide prejudice no one can stop you.
Yeah, I thought that satire in that post was pretty obvious. But then, I’m somewhat familiar with **Shag’**s postings in general, and I’d be very surprised if he was serious.
Be that as it may… There are indeed some nasty conservative pundits out there. But it’s better for Obama to get that stuff out now, so it doesn’t come up (as some new shocking revelation!!) in the general. If he does win the Dem nomination (doubtful, I think), we’ll be hearing the “Hussein” a lot more.
I’ll bet you my Freedom Fries you’re wrong.
I thought O’Bama was an Irish name!
Isn’t that basically exactly what you’re saying to David Simmons? You’re not responding to the substance of what he’s saying, you’re just saying “oh, both sides do it”? (Which they clearly do not. Now, it’s possible that if there were a Republican candidate whose last name was BuBluxBlan, then democratic pundits would be constantly making the obvious joke… but it’s also possible they wouldn’t, or at least not as commonly and publically as the “Hussein” and “Obama/Osama” jokes.)
Really? Equally? If you had to rate potential presidents on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being Mr. Christian Libertarian and 1 being, I dunno, Andrew Jackson, then you guarantee that all potential Republican and Democratic candidates would all be, I dunno, 1.9? I mean, it’s one thing to say that you dislike them all, and another to say that you dislike them all equally.
Or to ask another question, do you think that the country would be no better off today if Gore had won in 2000 or if Kerry had won in 2004?
Oh, and while we’re at it, you also had this little gem:
Cite that anyone equivalent to those making the “Osama/Obama” jokes is making fun of Bush’s Christianity? Oh, and no, Der Trihs is not the left wing equivalent of any right wing pundit or politician mentioned in this or any other thread.
I think you mean 7 (not that I’m an expert or anything).
All hail, lieu has performed a miracle! We all know that it is easy as pie to analyze the works of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Pynchon, but I had no idea that nobody was able to explain the appeal of Johnathan Swift, The Onion, or Shagnasty until lieu accomplished the feat of explaining for the first time an example of of satire, lampoon, irony, caricature, or burlesque. I shall mark my calendar and notify the New York Times Review of Books that the impossible was accomplished at 4:33 Eastern on Friday, August 24, 2007. Thank you for your groundbreaking efforts, lieu. I shall make sure you get all the credit you richly deserve. I can only wonder at how much effort you put into your post, seeing as how you managed to cut that literary Gordian knot by using so few, but remarkably pithy, words.
I now understand the spirit in which Shagnasty made his comments, and I withdraw any criticism aimed in his direction, and admit my whooshing.
To put it another way, lisacurl, if you’re too lazy to explain something, either don’t post a reply or simply admit your sloth.
Clearly it’s Japanese. Oh-Bama. I don’t know the Kanji, but in Kana it is writtien thusly: お ば ま. I thought everyone knew that!
Really? I find them reprehensible because they were propaganda ministers for a corrupt, destructive administration, insinuating to this very day (or just out and out saying) that critics and liberals are traitors and terrorist lovers. Calling names and making racist jokes? Nah, that’s just normal.
In a flash? They’ve been doing it since December.
Confusing the hapless voters by alluding to Obama’s “Iraqi” link? That’s not nearly as bad as comapring him to Iran’s leader.
Gasp! Not only does his name sound like an evil-doer, but he dresses like one, too!
Double post. :smack:
What I was saying was that after that (folklore type of) serpent Ed Rogers spoke of it, the name popped up all over the place. This tells me that some central command center of the party got the word out to bear down on it hard. Maybe Rogers just sent emails to his mailing list.
As for those asking for cites, I put this in IMHO because when I started hearing people using the full name I didn’t take names. I did notice the practice popping up all over for a while and that’s sufficient to support my opinion.
Ravenman, it’s to you and Shag to figure out the trouble you’re having with his post but you without question clearly misunderstood the tone of mine.
If this is the reason you find conservatives reprehensible, you arent looking hard enough.
If you don’t think it’s reprehensible, it’s because you are not grocking the strategy. During Nixon’s first run for Congress, he insisted on calling his opponent by her (obviously Jewish) maiden name, because he wanted to constantly remind the voters she was Jewish and play on their anti-Semitism. Those who emphasize Obama’s middle name are employing the same racist strategy. It is disgusting, but as has been pointed out already, the most disgusting thing about the whole affair is that this strategy will probably prove effective.
Nixon’s first run for Congress was against Jerry Voorhis. As far as I know, the only woman he ran against was Helen Gahagan Douglas, for Senate, and she was Catholic.