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1. Lightnin' Hopkins:

Not just a Berliner, no, he’s a citizen of the whole wide world. Running for president of a country that tortures. True story.

As I just heard Laura Ingraham say, it’s nice that he didn’t have time to meet with any troops in Germany but found plenty of time to work-out back at the hotel. Hope. Change. Vanity. Emptiness. Feh, wake me in November.

Jul 24, 2008 - 5:27 pm 2. Lightnin' Hopkins:

“This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East.”

Yeah, one such ‘moment’ was roughly five years ago in a little place called Iraq – otherwise known as a “quagmire,” or “failure,” according to the visionary Obama.

But it really isn’t fair to criticize him since he has had to “navigate” the “political high wire” of a completely stage-managed world tour. So very brave and talented is our lord.

I think I’ll have that drink now….

Jul 24, 2008 - 5:45 pm 3. Dick Stanley:

Seems like a lot of money to spend for not very much. I hope not much of it was tax money.

Jul 24, 2008 - 6:11 pm 4. Lem:

I think I’ll have that drink now….

I just hope the return of Radovan Karadzic to the headlines and the lessons delay and doing nothing in the face of madness is not lost on all the celebration about a nobody, not saying much of anything.

Come to think of it, the Obama campaign is a really long Seinfeld episode.

The best example is when Obama mete la pata (makes a gaffe) he just runs with it, gets in deeper – just like Kramer.

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious.

Let me join you LH.
http://getdrunkandvote4mccain.com/

Jul 24, 2008 - 6:49 pm 5. srlucado:

Just when you think the purple-lipped gasbag can’t get any more vapid, he proves you wrong.

Is there no end to this? Words no longer suffice – hubris, megalomania, puffery…nothing can contain both the breadth and vacuity of this guy.

Mein Gott, wie naif.

Scott

Jul 24, 2008 - 8:50 pm 6. Barry Dauphin:

““People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time””
WTF?

Jul 24, 2008 - 9:18 pm 7. Lem:

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

http://tinyurl.com/5bgetv

You had me at “hello”.

Jul 25, 2008 - 5:20 am 8. Charlie (Colorado):

Er ist ein Narr.

Jul 25, 2008 - 6:33 am 9. Richard Nieporent:

““People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time””

“Heute Deutschland, morgen die Welt!”**

**I know, I just violated Godwin’s law, but I couldn’t help myself.

Jul 25, 2008 - 6:35 am 10. Lightnin' Hopkins:

Lem:

“Mmmmm, boy, that Hennigan’s goes down smooth!”

–Kramer

Jul 25, 2008 - 7:33 am 11. LSD:

“Can’t we all just get along?” translated into the language of soaring rhetoric.

This brought to you by the smooth operator who suggested that rather than wasting blood and money in Iraq, the US ought to go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden! -Let’s see, Pakistan is about ten times the population of Iraq, has nuclear armaments and is the epicenter of muslim anti-american sentiment; it sounds like a winner all around. Even if it was a gaffe, the potus is not allowed to make that kind.

If this guy gets in, the rhetoric is going to lose its shine.

Jul 25, 2008 - 8:00 am 12. Mark Belt:

“People of the world”?

Jul 25, 2008 - 8:05 am 13. Jay:

“Well, it’s not exactly “ein Berliner,” but it’s something.”

Wait a minute…are you inching toward a compliment of a Democrat’s speech?

Amazing.

“This brought to you by the smooth operator who suggested…US ought to go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden!”

Sounds good to me. 9/11 was supposed to be the Day That Changed Everything, wasn’t it?

I guess that’s just one more slogan for you and your merry band of armchair warriors.

Jul 25, 2008 - 10:41 am 14. Lightnin' Hopkins:

If it’s slogans you want, Jay, then Barry’s your man. Plus he’s got all those really cool Soviet-style posters designed to inspire Hope in all of his comrades. Talk about a smooth operator! But then what would any of us chickenhawk neocons know about anything?

Carry on with the armchair psycho-analyzing. Maybe you’ll convince one of us to leave this merry band and walk down the path of the righteous in the footsteps of the Messiah. Change!

Jul 25, 2008 - 1:57 pm

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