Thursday, October 30, 2008

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Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie.

-John McCain, all the fucking time
Seriously like double-you tee eff? This asshole can't even come up with a convincing analogy. "Growing the pie"? The phrase is a lexico-conceptual black hole. I can feel the tug toward the event horizon of non-meaning even as I type. I mean, why not "aching the boat" or "slamming the air" or "focusing the box"?

And yet this random jumble of syllables has become the central rhetorical trope of his campaign. Orwell, when he wrote "Politics and the English Language," talked about the manipulation of language lacking content, but didn't anticipate campaigns conducted in Klingon.

9 comments:

quiconque said...

Grow the pie. Make the pie higher. Republicans just don't know what to do with pie.

Montag said...

it's not fair really. you only judge mccain so harshly because the other one has fucking hypnotized you. probably.

ps: i have the pie IOZ is talkin about right here.

Aaron said...

I think this is porno-talk. They're insinuating he shaves his Bush.

ken said...

When I was younger, I really loved the video for "Cherry Pie" by Warrant.

Mr.Fundamental said...

yeah he's def talking hair pie.

Leonard said...

What so weird about growing pies? We grow all kinds of food. Corn, cows, and pies. Where do you think pies come from, anyway? They grow on trees! Same as taxes. It's up to us, collectively, by which I mean of course them, the politicians, to make sure to water the pie trees. And the tax trees. Otherwise no more pies will grow, and we'll all be sad.

Gridlock said...

If Obama gets to pick who controls my piece of the pie then who gets to pick the flavour?

Why does John McCain hate cherries?

My campaign for president makes more sense than his at this point.

Anonymous said...

Ole: Sven! Sven! Vutt I do wrong? I try to grow de chickens but dey no grow! I poot de eggs in de ground an' cover dem vitt de earth but dey no grow!

Sven: Ole, you is de dumbest Norvegian I ever see! Everybody know you got to get a soil test first!

MandT said...

"Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie." Just put the pie on our faces for Christ sakes!