By Al Schumann on Wednesday September 1, 2010 12:24 AM
I expected bromides and I received bromides, but I was still disappointed by the president's speech. It was a wasted opportunity. He should have entered the oval office carrying a fake turkey and wearing a codpiece. This would have lent dignity to the rebranding of the occupation. But he blew it. What a dipshit.
Comments (18)
Excellent, Al!
Posted by Anonymous | September 1, 2010 12:38 PM
Posted on September 1, 2010 12:38
The only words I want to hear out of his mouth are, "I am not a crook".
Posted by Jay Taber | September 1, 2010 1:27 PM
Posted on September 1, 2010 13:27
What is the fake turkey and codpiece about?
Posted by Perplexed in Need of Guidance | September 2, 2010 9:47 AM
Posted on September 2, 2010 09:47
They're an American tradition. The decorative turkey and the codpiece symbolize compassion, the promise of a better tomorrow, humility and a realistic appraisal of the triumph of victory. When the president sports them, and utters the traditional blessing to the nation, "I am not a crook", citizens can rest safely, confident that God still smiles on a fretful but optimistic nation.
Perhaps... some day... we will all have decorative turkeys and codpieces of our own, and we will gather on the Mall in the spirit of rugged individualism. I don't want to get into maudlin sentiment, but there have been days when only that hope keeps me going.
Posted by Al Schumann | September 2, 2010 10:58 AM
Posted on September 2, 2010 10:58
Amusing, but it didn't help. Guess I'm just not with it. Thanks for trying.
Posted by Perplexed in Need of Guidance | September 2, 2010 11:19 AM
Posted on September 2, 2010 11:19
Posted by Al Schumann | September 2, 2010 11:27 AM
Posted on September 2, 2010 11:27
Clearly the same person in both pictures, but I can't quite place him. Over and out.;D
Posted by Perplexed in Need of Guidance | September 2, 2010 11:37 AM
Posted on September 2, 2010 11:37
Well, the original plan was for God-Emperor Obama to make His entrance in a golden chariot pulled by a dozen naked pwog blogger while a Marine Corp marching band played Thus Sprach Zarathustra and a thousand doves were released overhead. But Rahm Emanuel didn't approve.
Posted by AlanSmithee | September 2, 2010 2:14 PM
Posted on September 2, 2010 14:14
Rahmesses is a miserable excuse for a majordomo. One could hope, and hope in vain, that his opposition to the dove release sprang from concern over their welfare. The reality is he wants to be the sole source of pigeon shit.
Posted by Al Schumann | September 2, 2010 2:30 PM
Posted on September 2, 2010 14:30
Ah, the fun of thinking your initial remarks a satire, and then remembering upon reading the comments that the turkey and codpiece really happened.
Not only does the devil not mind us knowing that he exists, he wants us to know that he's having fun with the whole thing.
Posted by High Arka | September 2, 2010 6:13 PM
Posted on September 2, 2010 18:13
Preznit giv me turkee! Hee hee! Thanksralph!
Posted by Rose | September 2, 2010 7:11 PM
Posted on September 2, 2010 19:11
speaking of rebranding, selling commemorative urns of enemy ashes would fight the deficit like crazy, and supplying the dust could replace lost jobs in drought-stricken america.
Posted by hapa | September 3, 2010 3:15 PM
Posted on September 3, 2010 15:15
family fun:
put 'Fly a Predator' booths at the shopping malls. u fly 'em, you shoot 'em (with appropriate command authority closely held, of course). help cover some of the variable costs.
what? say $100/hour ... a special birthday treat for Babs or Junior. have a small birthday party sized audience area for paid seating, say $5/hour.
Posted by Deficit Fighter | September 3, 2010 8:23 PM
Posted on September 3, 2010 20:23
fixed costs
Posted by Deficit Fighter | September 3, 2010 9:32 PM
Posted on September 3, 2010 21:32
fascism alert at counter punch
"A failure of the left to innovatively fill this space will inevitably spawn a reinvigorated right with fewer apprehensions about state intervention, one that could combine technocratic Keynesian initiatives with a populist but reactionary social and cultural program.There is a term for such a regime: fascist."
"As Roger Bootle, author of The Trouble with Markets, reminds us, millions of Germans were disillusioned with the free market and capitalism during the Great Depression. But with the failure of the left to provide a viable alternative, they became vulnerable to the rhetoric of a party that, once it came to power, combined Keynesian pump-priming measures that brought unemployment down to 3 percent with a devastating counterrevolutionary social and cultural program.
Fascism in the United States? It’s not as far-fetched as you might think."
Walden Bello is a member of the Philippine House of ghost dancers
Posted by op | September 3, 2010 11:51 PM
Posted on September 3, 2010 23:51
Chomsky has been recommending US denazification for about 30 years. So what else is new?
Posted by Flak | September 4, 2010 12:07 AM
Posted on September 4, 2010 00:07
All these failures of the Left are really getting me down. Now we've botched the innovative space-filling and the reinvigorated right is spawning, like so many fat fascist factory-farmed salmon.
It looks exactly like every electoral cycle freak show that's ever been, but this time it's sure to lead to fascism, rather than another electoral cycle freak show.
Posted by Al Schumann | September 4, 2010 5:37 AM
Posted on September 4, 2010 05:37
"Chomsky has been recommending US denazification for about 30 years"
with him its puckish coquetting
we are always entering
some recently provoked blend
of pwog horrors
'brave new 1984 ' !!!!!
--------------
tucker acheson ageless boy great gamer:
"an ocean or two .... maybe three
separates us all
from fascism amerikan style...
unless that's
meant as an oxford-moron expression
in any case ... past 1946
its turtles all the way down
----- moment de rigour
in the fascism warning cycle :
the spastic pwog colon
freak out ...show
Posted by op | September 4, 2010 8:12 AM
Posted on September 4, 2010 08:12