Thank God
After eight years of garbage, America now has an eloquent leader who’s cooperative and compromising. You know, like real leadership. We no longer have to feel embarrassed when our leader speaks. We’re raising the bar instead of lowering it.
In 2000, when Bush debated, people thought, “Hey, he’s not that stupid.” That’s not very inspiring. Same thing happened this year with Palin.
Now we’ve got a leader for the whole world to admire. We’re the envy of the world and not its scorn.
And for my haters, I’m 100% on record as saying that the Democrats’ only chance to win this thing was with Hillary. I stand by that. I very much believe that if the economy had not completely tanked, John McCain would have won. The economy tanked so hard that it shifted the entire thing. McCain was leading coming out of the GOP convention. This would be like if the Phillies had to go into the World Series without Cole Hamels and Chase Utley.
If not for economic collapse, Hillary had a strong chance in the battleground states and some southern ones.
But alas, certain things seem meant to be on this planet. It appears that Barack Obama was meant to be president of the United States.
November 5, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I beg to differ on one point:
When Sarah Palin debated, people thought, “Wow, she IS that stupid.”
November 5, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Funny, Ace. But I think you get my point. The bar is set so low before the debate that if the fucking person can complete a single sentence, their supporters go, “No, see… that’s an intelligent human being there.”
November 7, 2008 at 6:35 am
You’re right. And that’s exactly what they did say – which continues to blow my mind.
We lucked out on Tuesday (and this is coming from someone who didn’t vote for Obama OR McCain).
November 7, 2008 at 12:05 pm
So what do you think about Peavy? Do we even really need this guy?
November 8, 2008 at 10:48 am
Luke,
I think any team can use Jake Peavy. I’d sure as hell rather hand him the ball in the playoffs than Ryan Dempster. Peavy’s gotten shelled in the postseason, but that still doesn’t change my mind. He’s a gritty, tough bastard period. He’s like Roy Oswalt. (Can’t you hear the cries from ACB?)
It’s his mental makeup that I like as much as anything else. Plus, I like the guys who throw strikes. Peavy at his best is like Z at his best… here’s a strike, come and get it.
But, more than this, we need left handed bats and there aren’t many good ones available. I also hope we do actually address leadoff man.
November 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I totally agree about the leadoff man, I think I’d rather send all these prospects in the Peavy deal to Baltimore for Roberts.
December 14, 2008 at 1:40 am
*We no longer have to feel embarrassed when our leader speaks. We’re raising the bar instead of lowering it. *
No, Obama *reads* well. As an extemporaneous speaker, he’s just as bad as Bush. As for “cooperative and compromising”–just who exactly are we to do any of this with? Osama? Kim Jong-Il? The Iranian Mullahs? Chamberlain was a diplomat. Churchill was a warrior. Obama is not a warrior.
*Now we’ve got a leader for the whole world to admire*
I don’t give a flying fuck what the world thinks of America. Most of them vote with their fucking feet anyway.
And stop referring to Obama as a leader. He’s never led anything, period. He’s bumbled his way like Chauncy Gardner to the highest seat of power. God help us all.
*It appears that Barack Obama was meant to be president of the United States. *
Dude’s not destined, just incredibly lucky. Ran against who, exactly? Hillary fucking Clinton? Her entire qualifications were that she was someone’s wife. That’s it. She can’t even get her own husband’s dick out of another woman’s mouth while she’s in the same house. And McCain ran the worst campaign I can remember seeing. Luckily, I was drunk for the entire Bob Dole campaign. I hear that was pretty bad.
Add to all this an electorate that can’t be bothered to do any critical thinking. No one knows anything about Obama. No one has seen his birth cert, his college grades, his medical records, his State Senate papers–nothing. But hey, it’s all good because’s he is a novelty, man. Whee, let’s make history. If the Dems are smart they’ll run a lesbian next time, because that’s pretty novel too.
Everyone always blusters about how great this country is, but you’d think if we were so great we’d produce a much better ruling class than the fuckwits who run for office and win. This nation hasn’t had a President worthy of admiration since Nixon–and he was only admirable in the sense that he was just so fucking evil. Who was the last decent President? Truman?