Sunday, November 01, 2009

She's No Lady, She's My Wife


According to Thomas Friedman, President Obama has a narrative problem. I completely disagree. I think he has a characterization problem. No, a world-building problem. No, a continuity error problem. A dialogue problem? No, a description problem. A gameplay problem? A user interface problem? A design problem? I think there is a script on his page that is causing errors on this page. I think that a misprint on the RSVP page accidentally listed the event as the Tuesday after when it actually occurs. I think those black shoes clash with that navy suit.

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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ve don't care. Ve still vant ze money, or ve fuck you up.

8:47 AM
incgnfcnt said...

did you really just pull a drudge and link to yourself?

... developing

10:31 AM
almostinfamous said...

BRAyVO! EN-KORE!

11:13 AM
Anonymous said...

For all the Obama cycle's laborious infodumping, my disbelief remains categorically unsuspended and the only sense of wonder imparted is wondering why any geek with half an ounce of sense would keep compulsively turning the pages when they could be reading something, you know, improving, like The Eye of Argon.

12:15 PM
rowan said...

omg 08ama got pwnd..102 iz TOO OP nerf 10Z!!!~!~!!!11~!!

2:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Black shoes with that navy suit are the new paisley shirt with stripped pants. Least I think I heard that on "What Not To Wear You Sad Pathetic Loser You".

2:50 PM
NutellaonToast said...

I thought the problem was that he was too perfect?

2:58 PM
Christopher said...

“You can’t get nation-building without shared sacrifice,” said Sandel, “and you cannot inspire shared sacrifice without a narrative that appeals to the common good — a narrative that challenges us to be citizens engaged in a common endeavor, not just consumers seeking the best deal for ourselves. Obama needs to energize the prose of his presidency by recapturing the poetry of his campaign.”

This, after Friedman spends his entire column explaining why Obama should sell every one of his policies -from health care to environmental protection- on the grounds that they'd improve the economy.

Are there any public intellectuals in America who AREN'T idiots?

3:49 PM
rowan said...

Christopher, while your last statement may be correct, picking Friedman to demonstrate the point is a little much. The man takes pseudo-intelligent idiocy to amazing heights, and has been known for such for most of the decade.

4:39 PM
Enron said...

I am more interested in like, which room in his Maryland mansion does Friedman write in, and how is his wife's mega-mall fortune doing?

4:46 PM
Charles F. Oxtrot said...

Christopher, while your last statement may be correct, picking Friedman to demonstrate the point is a little much. The man takes pseudo-intelligent idiocy to amazing heights, and has been known for such for most of the decade.

make that two decades.

11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

Help a fashion-blind dude out: what shoes are supposed to be worn with a navy suit?

1:35 PM
erin4iraq said...

Well I agree with Friedman that this is part of Obama's problem. But the other part is that we don't want the nation he's trying to build.

2:46 PM
erin4iraq said...

... and then there's that pesky constitution ...

2:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Call me kooky call me wacky, but I suspect that teabaggers like Erin didn't give a blistering fuck about the constitution between, say, 2001-2009. Funny how that works.

4:13 PM
Anonymous said...

anon @ 4:13 with the awesome insight - thanks, guy. do you have a blog i can read too? i can't get enough of your thinking.

4:26 PM
erin4iraq said...

OK, Kooky Wacky - Nope, 2001-09 were spent listening carefully to Bush-hating zealots who preached peace and tolerance while taking every opportunity to mock those with whom they disagreed. Funny how they never saw the disconnect.

4:57 PM
Brian M said...

I never preached peace and tolerance,at least not in political debate. Most of us were probably more concerned about 'real" things like levelling Fallujah and depleted uranium ammunition and one trillion dollars down a rathole for nothing. But poor widdle Erin4kinderandgentlerpolitics is still unhappy we did not rally around the Crawford Twit. Boo Hoo.

5:18 PM
Lucid said...

There are public intellectuals in this country? Who knew?

7:01 PM
Anonymous said...

But the other part is that we don't want the nation he's trying to build.

Love it or leave it, bitch.

8:27 AM
Anon 4:13 said...

Anon 4:26 -- when airheads like Erin finally have the honesty to say they just hate liberal niggers, people like me won't have to waste your valuable time pointing out the obvious. Extra ironic amusement: you're complaining about trite cliches on a blog that hasn't deviated from its predictable script since forever. Oh, wait, you're just here for the recipes, I guess.

P.S. Tonguebathe my nutsack.

9:04 AM
Charles F. Oxtrot said...

Anon @ 4:13 is stuck in a fantasy world where it's all about Teabaggers vs Pwogs and Pwogs MUST WIN!

Can you say distinction without a difference?

I knew you could.

11:24 AM
mds said...

How about an Outside Context Problem?

And the Monsieur is lying to you, people. Black shoes are an excellent complement to a navy suit. As long as they're not tasseled loafers.

Anon @ 4:13 is stuck in a fantasy world where it's all about Teabaggers vs Pwogs and Pwogs MUST WIN!

Actually, Anon seemed to be stuck in a world where a bunch of people like erin are suddenly once again clutching the Constitution as if it were holy writ, while doggedly ignoring the shitstains their own political movement smeared all over it. Which pretty much matches up with reality. "Pwogs" didn't explicitly enter into it.

Can you say distinction without a difference?

Well, pwogs are slightly less likely to cheer on beating fags to death, or shooting abortion providers, or to label a directionless centrist as the Second Coming of Stalin, than your average Supply-side Jesus teabagger dumbshit. But a whole bunch of pwoggies also magically fall in and out of love with the Constitution based on expediency, so there is that. (Personally, I don't think the Constitution was a suicide pact; it was a suicide note.)

1:11 PM
Anon 4:13 said...

Once again, Charlie Fucktwat comes galumphing into the room with a bucket on his head and starts swordfighting with the curtains, blissfully ignorant of his own inability to make a clear point related to anything actually being discussed. Asshole, I don't give a fuck about the long-since-useless Constitution or some silly distinction between pwogs and anti-pwogs. I hope America goes up in a mushroom cloud in my lifetime; where does that fit on your political spectrum?

Seriously, moron, step up your trolling game or step the fuck off. You make Alan Smithee look witty and intelligent.

8:46 AM
mds said...

You make Alan Smithee look witty and intelligent.

As do Mr. Smithee's simply smashing navy blue suit and black dress shoes. (Though I probably would have gone tieless rather than accessorize with an actual noose.)

12:10 PM

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