Jindal is getting
bludgeoned for his candy-ass response to Obama's speech last night. It's sort of fun seeing Wonder Boy getting criticized so thoroughly from both sides. Honestly, I was surprised to see the reaction this morning. When I watched the end of Jindal's response last night (I couldn't help myself), I didn't think it was a disaster. Sure, he sounded cheesy because of all the "talk slower!" coaching he's received. And sure, Jindal is just naturally geeky. (I don't have a problem with him being a geek, I have a problem with him being a geek who decided to force himself to believe stupid things in order to advance his political career.)
But this nationwide reaction is BRUTAL. Jindal's getting pummeled like a narc at a biker rally**. Let's ghoulishly inspect the damage, shall we? First, the delivery:
Fox News panel:
BRIT HUME: “The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal’s greatest oratorical moment.” NINA EASTON: “The delivery was not exactly terrific.”
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “Jindal didn’t have a chance. He follows Obama, who in making speeches, is in a league of his own. He’s in a Reagan-esque league. … [Jindal] tried the best he could.”
JUAN WILLIAMS: “It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish.”
Ramesh Ponnuru: "I thought his delivery was weak."
Ace of Spades: "
Awful. He walked out like an earnest dork and has a weird inflection, trying to sound upbeat and sunny when it's clearly not his natural metier. It sounds false, and
he looks false."Malkin: "The cable news talking heads panned Bobby Jindal’s response to Obama tonight."
Hot Air: "'Awful' is
Ace’s word but I’m in no mood to disagree. And neither are most HA commenters, judging from this
mammoth thread. This was his star turn and he came off wooden..."
Politico:“Jindal will recover, but it’s difficult to imagine him now as Obama’s 2012 opponent,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato in a post on POLITICO’s Arena forum. “Jindal not only didn’t live up to his advance billing, he proved that he needs a lot more seasoning before he gets a prime time slot.”
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“Obama gave a polished performance, as usual. Jindal’s act needs a lot of work,” said John J. Pitney Jr., a political science professor at California’s Claremont McKenna College. “His basic message was sound but his language was hackneyed and his performance was wooden. Fortunately he has a lot of time to improve his delivery. In the year 2040 he will still be younger than McCain was in 2008.”
Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, said, “Someday, when scholars are trying to fingerpoint the nadir of the post-Bush Republican Party, they may arrive at Jindal's speech tonight,” he said. “Though it was a tough moment for any Republican to give the opposition response, his speech came across as unserious in content and condescending in its tone.”
The
Other McCain:A big wiffle-ball swing and a miss for the consensus favorite 2012 candidate of Republicans who look down their nose at Sarah Palin.
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Perhaps the most damaging element in the negative reaction to Jindal's speech was the introduction of the "Kenneth" factor.
Andrew Sullivan:Close your eyes and think of Kenneth from 30 Rock. I can barely count the number of emails making that observation...
Stylistically, he got better as he went along but there was, alas, a slightly high-school debate team feel to the beginning. And there was a patronizing feel to it as well - as if he were talking to kindergartners - that made Obama's adult approach so much more striking.
Josh Marshall:
"Pre-existing condition"? Is it just me or is this absolutely cringeworthy? I mean, I really don't like Jindal. 
But this is awful.
The Plank: "Epic Fail.... Tonight, in all fairness, would’ve been tough to pull off even if Bobby Jindal didn’t sound like Kenneth from “30 Rock,” or, in my favorite analogy of the evening, a third grader performing in his Thanksgiving play..."
HuffPo:If it wasn't such a dead-on comparison it would be catty to say out loud... but there's no denying it: Bobby Jindal was totally channeling Kenneth The Page from NBC's 30 Rock tonight.
First Draft:[His] halting sing-songy Kenneth-the-NBC-page delivery was FAIL-tacular...
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Local reaction wasn't much kinder:
Moldy City:What was the worst thing about Jindal's presentation tonight? Was it that he sounded like that museum tour guide who talked your ninth grade class as if he were talking to a third grade class?
Humid City:
And, although I had a hard time believing I wasn’t really asleep and dreaming, I was, in fact, wide awake, and I was watching what everybody in the world outside of New Orleans was watching: a sad little tyke trying to win the big spelling bee and blowing it all up on a word even I could spell.
Even the
T-P story had to temper its raving about
Wonder Boy's Big Debut! with an acknowledgement of his "nervousness":
Presenting a personal story as striking as the president's, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal introduced himself to the nation Tuesday...
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Jindal intertwined his parents' immigrant story with his party's faith in self-reliance and America's native optimism even in the toughest of times.
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Jindal's appearance represented the delayed star turn he was to have had at the Republican National Convention...
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He is now on virtually everyone's short list of top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012... Tuesday night's speech may be remembered as the occasion when [Jindal and Obama] first went head-to-head.
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Jindal, while hewing closely to conservative orthodoxy, presented himself as capable, thoughtful and not especially confrontational.
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Jindal appeared a bit nervous at first as he attempted to deliver the speech in a friendly, folksy style.
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And that was only reaction to Jindal's
delivery. Now let's look at reactions to the substance of what Jindal said:
Political Animal:
Here's Jindal, for example, explaining his concerns about government. "Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us. Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts."
That doesn't make any sense. In fact, it's backwards -- the government failed to act in New Orleans, and a result, people suffered. Had a competent and effective federal response been in place, lives would have been saved. Jindal has learned the wrong lessons -- the families devastated by Hurricane Katrina needed more from Washington, not less...
"While some of the projects in the [stimulus] bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
First, the "Las Vegas to Disneyland" line is still ridiculous. Second, marveling at the very idea of high-speed rail, as if it were some kind of fanciful magic, does not reflect well on the governor's appreciation of infrastructure innovation. And third, since when is monitoring volcanoes a bad thing? Does Jindal think monitoring hurricanes is wasteful spending? The governor of a state ravaged by a natural disaster shouldn't mock programs that can save people from natural disasters.
David Brooks:[For Jindal to] come up at this moment in history with a stale "government is the problem," "we can't trust the federal government" - it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna - that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that - In a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say "government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending," it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is.
Media Matters:Bobby Jindal will accuse Obama of pessimism tonight, saying: A few weeks ago, the President warned that our nation is facing a crisis that he said ‘we may not be able to reverse.’ Our troubles are real, to be sure. But don’t let anyone tell you that we cannot recover - or that America’s best days are behind her.
.... Jindal's claim is false. Obama didn't say "we may not be able to reverse" the crisis; he said if we continue to do nothing, it may reach a point where it cannot be reversed. And he didn't say "we cannot recover" or that "America's best days are behind her." Simply didn't happen.
Daily Kingfish:And that cautious streak in ya, Governor, is the reason you're stuck in that 1990's Republican frame of government being the problem. This time, however, half-measures like cutting the capital gains tax won't cut it. The private sector is looking out for itself ... paying their top people obscene bonuses for failures, and you want to give the top people more money? No, sir ... the answer is that the government must once again, save capitalism from itself.
People Get Ready:The bureaucratic incompetence which Bobby Jindal vilified, in his knee-jerk Republican response to a powerful speech by Barack Obama, occurred, in fact, during a Republican president.
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Actually, (aside from the dubious veracity of the story) there’s a hidden lesson which Bobby Jindal would rather we forget: When compassionate hearts and enterprising spirits aren’t enough, competent government is essential.
Liberty and Justice for All:Jindal claims he cut taxes, but Clancy Dubos already called Jindal on those lies.
Jindal says that he opposes universal government run healthcare. Well, Obama is not pushing for that so why bring that up? Is Jindal ignorant of what Obama wants? Or is he just purposefully misleading the listeners. I vote the latter.
Jindal brought up the “strong ethics laws” he had passed. Yet he conveniently left out the fact that he signed legislation that made it harder to convict corrupt people of ethics violations. He claims to want to bring transparency to Washington D.C., yet he signed legislation that eliminated transparency from his office! What a hypocrite!
E's critique at
We Could Be Famous should be read in full, but here's one part:
Here is what Jindal said about education:
To strengthen our economy, we also need to make sure every child in America gets the best possible education. After Katrina, we reinvented the New Orleans school system - opening dozens of new charter schools, and creating a new scholarship program that is giving parents the chance to send their children to private or parochial schools of their choice. We believe that, with the proper education, the children of America can do anything. And it should not take a devastating storm to bring this kind of innovation to education in our country.
This is, simply put, a total distortion of not just of what is going on in New Orleans schools but also his own role in implementing the policies he highlights. He does this all in once sentence somehow.
"We reinvented the New Orleans school system..."
By this I believe he's referring to the effective dissolution of the Orleans Parish School Board and the creation of the state-run Recovery School District to take temporary receivership of public school management in New Orleans after Katrina. For one, the decision was made and implemented before Jindal was governor. In fact, it was former governor Kathleen Blanco who created the RSD, hired Paul Pastorek to head the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and brought in Paul Vallas to mangage the RSD itself. For two, nobody aside from the cheerleaders from within the system's administration is anywhere close to declaring any kind of victory in what is an ongoing and contentious experiment.
Again, I'm pretty shocked that the reaction has been so uniformly negative to Jindal's speech-- especially on the right. The media script coming out of Jindal's rebuttal is that he's "Geeky like Kenneth and not ready for Prime Time". This script, once it congeals, will attach to Jindal like a millstone. Louisiana's Wonder Boy, the "Next Ronald Reagan", threw up a clunker last night. It will be interesting to see how he deals with this personal political setback.
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Update: Thx to
Memeorandum for the link.
Paul Krugman distills it thusly:
And leaving aside the chutzpah of casting the failure of his own party’s governance as proof that government can’t work, does [Jindal] really think that the response to natural disasters like Katrina is best undertaken by uncoordinated private action? Hey, why bother having an army? Let’s just rely on self-defense by armed citizens.
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* Title refers to this
Gambit story.
** That's an old Dennis Miller joke.
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"Jindal's Speech: Panned, Seared"
Ouch.
I can't wait for the SNL version.
You should know Editilla had a few t'ings to add...
Governorcist Bobby Jindal offered the Grand Old Predicable, Limp Bisquet, Palin'quine, Michael Brown Jonestown Cult Bride Kool Aid Communion Retarte Retread of promising not to come in the nation's mouth again --if they could just get another shot.
Suffice to say, little Peeyou just could not raise his game above looking and sounding like a bull's branded jailhouse punk slumdog tour guide trying to imp Jimmy Stewart as "Mr Smith" to a full busload of Crackers on Crack in a Cracker Barrel across the street from the Universal Studios Mardi Gras Crack House.
Like I said, the new presidential GOP has the reverse midas touch. Jindal chose to cynically hew to the horseshit Wingnut line of 'reasoning', and after so compromising his dignity, will probably get nothing but problems from it. When you're a political party, and your biggest problem is your *base*, you in BIG trubba.
This is not a joke which is original to me, but I liked it: Why did Bobby Jindal speak to his audience as if they were 2nd graders? Because Jindal, and other Republicans of his ilk, won't have a realistic chance of being elected to national office until current 2nd graders are old enough to vote.
I gleefully missed the speech, as I was watching LSU beat Florida at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center from our seats two rows past God's.
Be honest, oyster, barring something-and this isn't hyperbole-miraculous, you KNEW the consensus of the media would be to pan the guy. We already knew his cadence, tone, tenor, & delivery were and aren't in President Obama's category. Few out there are his equal, in that respect.
But, you knew the media would cut this guy apart. At least some of the media.
I didn't expect the sycophants at Fox to dump him like that. But, again, they had to have heard this guy speak before. I hope they weren't expecting Shakespeare, or for him not to deliver lines like he was reading a script for a phone menu for a bank or telemarketing firm.
I agree with you in that I don't mind the guy's dorkiness, because it belies the fact that he's got a great ability to grasp the facts, details & minutae that a good politician absolutely must have if they DON'T have the gift for oratory.
The whole deal about the "federal flood", well, oyster, you guys in New Orleans are rightfully touchy about that, but I do remember Mee Maw Babbling "Tranqued Up" Blanco withering on a live feed during a commercial break where she admitted a grave-and that's not some play on words, either-mistake in not requesting federal assistance earlier.
I'd mention Ray's busses flooding, but again, I'm digressing.
One thing I wanted to mention...and it's a small, minute point, but, still...
Why in the WORLD would you want government investing in light rail, or magnetic rail, or a coke rail, for that matter, after watching what a "spectacular success" AMTRAK is? I mean, what would our airlines be like had we nationalized them?
I'm not sure of the particulars of the project, and if its some private/public cooperative, I'm all for it, but spending public dollars on infrastructure when we've got glaring examples of government inefficiency right now staring us in the face...well...I just agree with Jindal on that point.
But, when it all boils down to it, perhaps this is a boon to our state. Perhaps he'll stick around a little closer to home, set us up for an 8 year period of good government, and occassionally ruffling feathers by passing gobbeldygook religion laws.
If I can suffer through Obama promising no lobbyists appointments and then watching him appoint lobbyists, as well as our "middle class tax cut" putting a grand total of $52 a month in 95% of American's pockets via bring home pay (and if $52 a month is making or breaking you, then that tax cut was dumb policy, any way you slice it), and other fun stuff that as a fiscally conservative fella like myself, I don't particularly consider good policy or politics, you guys can put up with Piyush as Governor.
Especially if it means he's placed the glass ceiling over his own head, in this case.
You definitely don't have to keep quiet about it, obviously...
"you knew the media would cut this guy apart"
Actually, no. I'm quite surprised by the universal "thumbs down".
My favorite, as is often the case, was WWL's Bob Delgiorno this morning. At first, Bob made sure everyone understood how hard it was for Bobby talking only to a camera while the President had "700 cheerleaders" (The U.S.Congress) for an audience. And then he went into a thing about how he "just can't stand" Pelosi and how it was difficult for him to have to look at her while Obama was talking.
Good times.
Why in the WORLD would you want government investing in light rail, or magnetic rail, or a coke rail, for that matter, after watching what a "spectacular success" AMTRAK is? I mean, what would our airlines be like had we nationalized them?
Why in the WORLD would you ask a rhetorical question like that if you were trying to make a logical point?
The commercial passenger railroads were 'nationalized' because they weren't profitable - they were all bankrupt or near to. IOW, nobody wanted the business. Airlines are marginally profitable - supposedly - and so they are still private businesses. capiche?
AMTRAK is crappy largely because people of your persuasion lobby/inveigh against it and your representitives in congress use it as a political football - cutting the budget, holding AMTRAK hostage to other things, keeping it on starvation funding (just enough money to operate, but not enough to plan or operate well). It's called 'circular reasoning': government operation of anything is by definition bad, therefore it's the government's responsibility to fuck everything up as much as possible so as to *prove* that government operation of anything is bad.
Sorry to go off on a rant here, but I'm just sick of this crap, not least because this stupidity forestalls a useful discussion about how to actually improve the functioning of gov. entities. For example, AMTRAK *does* suck, and the whole thing needs to be rethought. But that - and a myriad of other things like it - can never happen until we can agree on some basic, fundamental principles.
Some public services are just that, and do not need to make a profit directly. One of them is the Post Office. Another is - generally speaking - Transport. This includes public transit but also roads and highways. Oddly, no jackass Republican or Blue Dog ever demands that DOT 'make a profit'. Even minds this dim can understand that public investment (of hundreds of billions of dollars - much more than any other transit spending) in roads and interstates is to the economic benefit of the whole country. But mention trains, and these same people get very upset.
Passenger railroads were 'nationalized' because there was no profit. Banks will be more/less nationalized because the people running them destroyed them. And I predict that if we get another big and prolonged spike in the price of oil, and travel goes down, we may see 'national' airlines in the US, too.
Try to wrap your head around this, please: a Marxist/Leninist or Leftist government nationalizes business so as to harvest profits for the government (the 'people'). A modern hyper-capitalist country like the US only nationalizes anything when there not only *is* no profit, but when there are, in fact, huge *losses*. It really is socialism for business and rich people.
You know, I love the fact that when Jindal was making is grand entrance that Chris Matthews audibly said "Oh God".
I love the fact that the media is finally questioning Jindal, and not just for his poor performance last night but for his overall ideas.
Rachel Madow last night brought up that Jindal is anti-abortion with 0 exceptions, highlighting that rape victems would be unable to get an abortion if pregnant.
After the Louisiana media dropped the ball when it came to their responsibility to educate the public, I was concerned that the national media would follow suit. I didn't think they would, but I was worried that they might. Well, so far they have not.
Jindal better get used to hard questions being asked of him. And Melissa Sellers wont be able to protect him, as her putting up roadblocks will not be tolerated.
Oyster, this is a great collection of posts about last night. Thank you for including mine in the bunch :)
Oh and then there's T-Bogg
"Bobby Jindal's presidential aspirations blew up tonight like a cheap condom on the end of a fire hose."
Yeah, I saw that one and had to do a second post. Too good not to include.
My first impression last night was that Jindal was ghost butler saying "Come in Madam".
I started screaming.
BTW- my eyes are still rolling around from his speech last night.
Johnnymargarine,
Can you name me one Government run enterprise that isn't a joke?
Since we've already ruled out the USPS, and we know its "Republicans" fault that AMTRAK isn't running like a Timex, what government run monopolies are thriving right about now?
I'm all ears...
GO. Sycophant or Troll? BOTH!
I had a wonderful day in the Quarter yesterday and still feel better than Piyush does today.
Hey Ricky, go tell Lucy you made it home, and now she's got some 'splainin to do!
Gentilly, at first I couldn't find my glasses, and so thought you had typed "ghost butter" to describe Peeyou's entrance. Perfect I thought! Like Rhythm Oil! Or, Swamp Jelly, Baby Lizard Semen, Shark Lubricant... made sense to me.
I like the "ghost butler" image too, but now I can't get this image out of my mind of PBJ Ghost Butter. Ghost Butter... yikes. Smooth Chimera like... ghost butter. What color is ghost butter?
Anyway, I can just as easily imagine Peeyou as a "Baby Lurch".
He just doesn't carry the size of a main character though, more like a contestant on a butler reality show.
Jus'sayin... he scares me because he has actually sat on an actual dddemon and and emerged yea and verily proud of his spiritual warriortude. As the Big Molluski earlier noted: Jindal actually believes this shit.
Ghost Butter indeed.
“His basic message was sound but his language was hackneyed and his performance was wooden. Fortunately he has a lot of time to improve his delivery. In the year 2040 he will still be younger than McCain was in 2008.”
BWUAAAAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously, Erster: "decided to force himself to believe"? Really??? I don' think so. When I look into those shallow, pallid eyes, I don't see the great supercomputer, running at top speed, planning his next move. I see a true believer. A fucking FANATIC. He's CONVINCED, dude. If you told him that Mary was appearing on English muffins and that eating them was tantamount to sacrilege, he'd have them banned from the fucking state.
Okay, maybe not if you or I told him, but if Pope Panzerfaust/Chupacabra said it, he'd be alllllll over that shit.
And that is what, to me, makes him truly terrifying as a national political possibility. Yeah, Nixon fooled 'em all for a long, long time, but he eventually showed his hand and blew his wad. Too bad that we weren't able to recover and capitalize upon it properly, rather than let the Goldwater-wannabes put Ronnie Ray-Gun into prime puppetry position.
At any rate, I'm laying odds that Piyush doesn't recover from the national humiliation (his ego can't fucking take it), and has a nervous breakdown inside of the next 9 months. He'll barter Supriya into another conception (with or without turkey baster? Hmmm...), 'cause another offspring will make him look more "virile," but when the seminal remake doesn't take in any group larger than Timmy Teepell, he's gonna go apeshit and have a melt-down that would make Uncle Earl step back and say, "Dayuuummmm, dude. Tune it down a notch."
And like Earl K.'s arrogant Nawth-Luuzeeanner white-trash-with-money, carpetbagging in-laws, Piyush's family & handlers will cart him off to Pasadena or wherever the most-fashionable resort-nuthatch is that week, for him to do some "serious introspection." Or, as is his wont, he'll play to type and run off to Rome on a "pilgrimage." Pick one. He thought that this speech was really going to set him up for the next coronation. Instead of looking past the roadkill to the next better job, he's going to be so furious with himself, with the G.O.P. handlers who promised him the moon, that he COULDN'T POSSIBLY fuck it up, that he's going to fucking snap.
His blood pressure might actually rise above 90/60, if he gets REALLY strident.
Personally, having had to witness his dismantling of the charity hospital system and DHH from the receiving end, I look forward to watching the crash-and-burn. I cherish this opportunity. And no, there isn't a single person on this planet who can make me feel guilty about that. He's enjoyed his ill-gotten gains far too much, he's exploited the genocide of New Orleans far too joyously, he's paved the route to his throne over the bodies of LOUISIANA CITIZENS, so fuck the little rat-faced motherfucker sideways with a chainsaw. And then let sepsis set in.
Oh, and high praise for Political Animal. Fucking NAILED it. Best collection I've seen yet, and I love the way you put it together, Erster. Considering how rarely I share compliments (about as often as certain concern trolls are capable of personal hygiene and/or opening their minds), that's high fucking praise, buddy.
Have I mentioned that I fucking loathe Google quotes almost as I loathe HaloScan? Ya try to write in a certain way to get a certain effect, and they just piss it all to hell, even when you've double- and triple-checked the fucking tags.
He's enjoyed his ill-gotten gains far too much, he's exploited the genocide of New Orleans far too joyously, he's paved the route to his throne over the bodies of LOUISIANA CITIZENS, so fuck the little rat-faced motherfucker sideways with a chainsaw. And then let sepsis set in.
Somebody farted...
It was yo mama, and we can hear you sucking it up outta her flagging, gelatinous ass from here, you little no-dick, twizzler-sucking, cheetoh-stained, basement-dwelling, woman-hating, politically-illiterate, misanthropic, desperate-for-attention-but-too-stupid-to-earn-it, scum-sucking, dog-fucking, toad-licking, knuckle-walking, inbred recidivist redneck repulicunt troll motherfucker, oughta be living under a bridge, gnawing on a goat's neck motherfucker.
This ain't first grade. Women don't take it as a compliment or as "attention" when you can only respond to their posts with creepy, stalker-wannabe-but-just-can't-commit insanity of a flavor that even the third-floor, east-wing department of Charity Hospital WOULDN'T WANNA FUCK WITH.
Grow the fuck up, child, realize that the world does NOT revolve around you or any other spoon-fed pablum-sucking trust-fund baby (or the trailer-trash wannabe who become republicunts 'cause they think that the old-money motherfuckers will someday "accept" and "approve" of their loser asses), and start to show some concern for your fellow human beings as you sit around with your el penito betwixt thumb and forefinger, twiddling the day away. If you've got shit to say, make it shit with a fucking POINT, or at least something to OFFER. Hell, we can't even get decent jokes off of you, you're so fucking lame.
Do the gene pool (on the very, very, OFF-OFF chance that any human would ever procreate willingly with the likes of you; and yes, "willingly" means you can't fuck that woman you've got trapped in a well in your basement, that ain't exactly a fair fight) and us all a huge fucking favor, kid: Kill yourself.
You have nothing to offer, you do nothing to help anyone but yourself, and you suck-up to rich motherfuckers who will never even ever want to MEET you, they just want your VOTE, stupid, they don't give a fuck about YOU --- and hell, as big of a loser as I am, they'd wanna help ME before they'd ever even acknowledge your presence --- you ain't doing anything but spinning your wheels, you immature, trapped-in-pubescence-and-ain't-never-gonna-get-out, never-been-laid-and-never-gonna-get-it-or-get WHY, wasting my time and oxygen moron. You don't matter, you have nothing to say, you will never accomplish anything of any worth to the rest of the planet, and you have never ever even THOUGHT to do anything for the greater good of humanity. You're a parasite on the ass of humanity, and I think that it's high time that you do something PRODUCTIVE with your half-literate, couldn't-prove-a-point-with-Benjamin-Franklin-feeding-you-lines, misogynistic dork ass.
Do what Bill Hicks told all marketing & advertising scum to do, and if he had lived to see the innernets, he'd tell YOU to do: Kill yourself. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, that's a given. Except with you, you ARE the problem. Intellectual laziness such as yours is what enabled OUTRIGHT TRAITORS, GENOCIDAL MANIACS AND THIEVES to perpetuate the past 8 years and the current, intentionally-created global economic clusterfuck. YOU HELPED THESE MOTHERFUCKERS KILL 1,600 PEOPLE DURING THE GENOCIDE OF KATRINA, YOU HELPED THESE MOTHERFUCKERS KILL HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS WHO HAD NEVER DONE A FUCKING THING TO US, AND YOU CONTINUE TO PLAY CHEERLEADER FOR THE BIGOTED, BASS-ACKWARDS, GREED-WHORE MOTHERFUCKERS WHO ARE DESTROYING THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AS THEY CALL IT "MAKING PROGRESS."
I'd offer to do the deed for you, but you are NOT worth me throwing my back out to have to shove you into the woodchipper. Maybe if I had a forklift or a crane, but not manually.
The best thing that you will ever achieve in your life, if you can achieve it, will be to end it, and thereby, end our suffering.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Can you name me one Government run enterprise that isn't a joke?
There are quite a few which aren't a 'joke', and if you were honest, you would be able to name a few, since you probably rely on them for something. For one, the USPS isn't a joke.
Seriously, that's your whole response? I can see that I was just wasting my time. Not gonna waste anymore.
Can you name me one Government run enterprise that isn't a joke?
There are quite a few which aren't a 'joke', and if you were honest, you would be able to name a few, since you probably rely on them for something. For one, the USPS isn't a joke.
Seriously, that's your whole response? I can see that I was just wasting my time. Not gonna waste anymore.
[sorry for the dbl post]
OK, I just have to share this. h/t to Eric Martin, BTW.
Know who David Frum is? One of W's speechwriters, and a Leading Neoconservative Loudmouth. He said this, under the title 'Obama's March To Socialism':
"A federal bank takeover is a bad thing obviously. I wonder though if we conservatives understand clearly enough why it is a bad thing. It’s not because we are living through an enactment of the early chapters of Atlas Shrugged. It’s because the banks are collapsing. Obama, Pelosi, et al are big-spending, high-taxing liberals. They are not socialists. They are no more eager to own these banks than the first President Bush was to own the savings and loan industry – in both cases, federal ownership was a final recourse after a terrible failure. And it was on our watch, not Obama’s, that this failure began. Our refusal to take notice of this obvious fact may excite the Republican faithful. But it is doing tremendous damage to our ability to respond effectively to the crisis."
Whoa...You were the one that discounted the USPS, because I was actually going to mention those two as the only ones I could think off of the top of my [pea brained] sized head.
I'm just playing by yo rules, Boss...
Whoa...You were the one that discounted the USPS, because I was actually going to mention those two as the only ones I could think off of the top of my [pea brained] sized head.
I'm just playing by yo rules, Boss...
Sorry for the dbl post :)
