Better Driving Through Politics

Yes, I am still doing the online Defensive Driving Course.  A truly Lenten activity, full of penitential thought and actions, though I pine for the days of 5 "Our Fathers" and 3 "Hail Marys."

I'm happy to see that the Republicans can at last rally around a common enemy: Michelle Obama.  Actually, she isn't the enemy.  Her stupidity is.  Not that she's stupid, technically.  There is just something extra special about someone who went to Princeton, then Harvard, who adopts the mantle of stupidity just to have that common touch, so that her constituents can relate.  Well, at least she hasn't turned her back on affirmative action like Clarence Thomas did.  In fact, government directives like affirmative action worked so well for her and her husband that they are proponents of vast amounts of government help to every single person in the U. S. of A. who is disadvantaged as they were so that they all (the Great Unwashed Disadvantaged) can go to Princeton and Harvard.

My two favorite commentaries about Michelle & Barack are from Rich Galen and David Brooks.   David seems to be in his element describing the inevitable Letdown after the giddy climax of the Obamagasmatron (slogan: Yes, yes, yeeeessss, yes YES ooooh yes, yes, unhhh, yes, yes, YES yee-ee-ssss, yes, yes, oh baby, yes, yes, yes, uhhhhhh, oooooh, yessss, YES, yes, yes yes, yes, YES YES YES YEEESSSS

YEEEESSSSS WEEEEE CANNNNNN!

 

Was it good for you? 

Comments

[TD]

Lawdy, missy B. Y'all dun inventolated de "Eloquent but Empty-gasm." Yo sho'nuf be axin' fo' a change in de hope de guvmint gives yas ta believes in. Sho'nuf.

Uncle Tom

[Rachel]

You sound so cynical. Lucky for us, Obama will end that too. Michelle said so!

"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."

[TD]

> Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yanks may actually want a war?
> We'll show 'em!
> Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
> Not going to be any war? Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
> If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
> But Scarlett...
> Don't you want us to have a war?