Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Didn't bother

Nope, I didn't watch the State of the Union. But Stephen Green did. And as usual he has the line of the night. Actually, several:

“Do more to encourage fatherhood.”
Maybe we could start by not paying for other people’s condoms.
Just a thought.

And:

OMG. “The greatest nation on earth cannot continue drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.”
This is like me berating the trash guys for all the empty liquor bottles they haul away from the end of my drive.

And:

“Gabby Giffords deserves a vote.”
WTF? Did she move and forget to re-register?

And, my personal favorite:

“No one should take my word for it.”
I’m laughing like the Joker and crying like Smokey Robinson.

More, much more, at the link. Remember, one way to save the Republic from the depredations of a guy like Obama is through relentless mockery. Presidents should be mocked and I'm hard pressed to think of any president who deserves it more than the gent currently occupying the Oval Office.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mockery requires purchase, Mr. D. Without it, mockery slips off the victim and puddles uselessly on the floor pulled by gravity to the nearest drain. The ever-decreasing Republican party's biggest fail has always been comedy. Mockery needs people to be "in" on the joke, and the in group for the right-wing?, well, they think the highest reaches of laughter are found on the the 3rd tee when Carl from accounting peels off a classic zircon of wit that inevitably begins: "Jesus and Jack Nicklaus step up to a par three..." The sad truth is that the Republican Party believes their only problem lies in "branding." So, as I write this, I see your point. If the Rs can increase the size of the "in" group, they might have a shot at pulling out of their tailspin. But by trying to out "hip" a black dude who can carry at least one line by the Rev. Al Green, Carl from accounting looks like a complete douche. I've got a few ideas about how they could do it, but Marco Rubio professing sympathy and love for Tupac, and Clint Eastwood talking to a chair, aren't anywhere near the mark.

Mr. D said...

Anon, I think you're overthinking this. My point isn't to make Republicans look cool, it's to call out that Obama is a moron.

Cool is subjective. Idiocy? Not so much.

Anonymous said...

Shout it from the mountaintops then: "Obama is a moron!" then wait for the echo. If you don't hear it returned, then maybe your voice failed to touch ground. I suspect that calling a black guy in THIS country, who managed to dupe 300 million people into voting him into office, TWICE!, an idiot puts the bar for intelligence above the head of Paul Bunyan. He may be feckless or tyrannical, rough or polished, raw or cooked, but stupid... Naw, not even close if you have a ruler to measure such things.

Mr. D said...

I suspect that calling a black guy in THIS country, who managed to dupe 300 million people into voting him into office, TWICE!

Not sure I completely agree with your detective work there, anon. He got about 67 million votes in 2008 and a little less than 66 million in 2012.

And what will happen in the next few years, as the consequences of his actions start to hit home, is that a lot of people will be more receptive to such messaging.

And to be clear, he's a moron at governing. As a campaigner, he might be the best we've seen. Although it helps if you have a Greek chorus that cleans up your messes for you. But right now, his job description is governance, not campaigning. And he's a very bad hire.