You can't blame Barack Obama for these creepily worshipful viral video ads will.i.am is doing for him, but they are so dead earnest that they're just begging to be mocked -- and Obama along with it. This is not a political campaign, this is a cult of personality. I can't believe that I'm saying this, but more of this gaggy Dear Leader stuff from Obama worshipers I have to watch, the more I appreciate Hillary Clinton's plain old milk-curdling nastiness. Watch for yourself (but be warned: the chant gets stuck in your head, like a fresh dog turd in the grooves of your sandals).
Let's not forget Madame Obama's Stakhanovite exhortation:
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
Where the hell is SPY magazine when America needs it?
(P.S. Note to Ryan Philippe: you look swell in that clip, and I've got no problem with you voting for Obama, but if you really want to make a better world for your children, why don't you go back to those children, and the wife you left to take up with your co-star?)
(P.P.S. Note to Jim Findley: Ha! Finally, 23 years after that Russian History class, I was able to reference Stakhanov in the course of my labors. Stoli shots all around!)
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"In case you haven't noticed, we in Washington aren't functioning as we should be," McCain said. "It's getting harder and harder to do the Lord's work in the City of Satan."
This is the GOP equivelant of Hillary talking like Uncle Remus to a black audience; disingenous and patronizing.
Jaybird, as far as I'm concerned, you can make fun of McCain supporters in any manner you choose, and for any reason you can think of.
Mark me down as a "Conservative Republican for Hillary/Obama 08" (though I'm not really a Republican, it just sounds better to throught that in too).
Just for the record, everyone knows that dolphins engage in same-sex stimulation, and form long-term same-sex pair bonds. It's not "effeminate" for dolphins--it's normal. Behold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0vGamcQIYs
"It's not "effeminate" for dolphins--it's normal."
Now, now, that's like saying Richard Simmons is not effeminate because "for him" it's normal.
Max--wow! Finally you get it! : D
Just tuned into this column by accident. Surprised to see it on Beliefnet. Mixing politics & religion just doesn't make sense to me. Best advice would be to tend to your own faults before looking at others. Jesus' words are so rarely listened to. Let he/she without sin throw the first stone.
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