Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Annals of Comparative Constructs

Just as Abraham Lincoln had to lead the nation from slavery and Franklin Roosevelt from the Depression, this president must lead the nation from the calamitous failures of three decades of conservative dominance.

-Katarina maxima Noodle
That's one hell of a just as.

Posted by IOZ at 11:16 AM | email »
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13 comments:

Enron said...

Well, what if El Presidente is a conservative himself?

11:30 AM
Anonymous said...

It's just this war and that lying
son of a bitch Johnson and...I would never hurt you. You know that.

MORE BETTER DEMOCRATS

11:31 AM
Ethan said...

Does Katty put Clinton with the conservatives as a general rule? From what little I know of her, that doesn't sound like her MO.

11:33 AM
lucid said...

Ethan - she did in the '90's. Once she became accepted in the cable news punditocracy I think her story changed a bit. In general, The Nation was not fond of Clinton while he was in office.

12:09 PM
Ethan said...

Ah.

12:16 PM
Professor Coldheart said...

Here's a gem I wanted to make sure you caught:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/07/lind_american_people

Michael Lind pining for the good old days of Tammany Hall and Richard Daley (the first one, that is).

12:24 PM
Anonymous said...

Just as the United States incinerated women and children to end the war against Japan, I need to end my fast and get some lunch.

12:24 PM
Rojo said...

Just as their were powerful domestic forces threatening elite power that caused Lincoln and Roosevelt to significantly depart from the policies of their political forebears, so...

Oh wait, I think I see a problem here.

12:40 PM
NutellaonToast said...

Well, it's actually pretty accurate. I mean, just as drinking 15 beers a day is a good weight loss program, Obama must yadda yadda...

See. It works with a lot of things.

1:11 PM
Leonard said...

Just as two presidents that had historically large majorities in Congress "had" to fundamentally revise the constitution... Obama, who had a razor-thin majority which he then lost, also "must" revise our constitution.

Makes sense to me!

2:05 PM
K. Ron Silkwood said...

"calamitous failures"?

No, things seem to be working out well for my masters.

2:48 PM
Michael Dawson said...

Don't we all miss our Nation subscriptions?

3:05 PM
ts said...

Just as Abraham Lincoln had to lead the nation from slavery and Franklin Roosevelt from the Depression, I had to lead my stomach contents back into their proper place after reading that paragraph.

4:42 PM

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