Obama '08?

@Finn dAbuzz,

The New York Times was as guilty as all the rest when it came to drumming up support for the invasion of Iraq. On my satellite TV I get CNN as well as Fox, but I don't really watch them that much, I tend to switch between the BBC and Al Jazeera.

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WHAT, ME WORRY?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Quit being such a douchebag, Finn. Don't you have something better to do than ape the juvenile **** that gets posted on right-wing websites?

Cycloptichorn

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

They stopped being taken seriously when they put ideology before country. The effect of which reverberates around the world. The local Greggs has just run out of sausage rolls, you can't tell me that's not connected.

Whether or not you take them seriously is, I'm quite sure, a matter of complete indifference both to them and to most Americans. You are not one of us and you have already done a good job demonstrating your lack of understanding of the issues at hand as they are debated here.

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@georgeob1,

Shouldn't you be declaring a vested interest?

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Shouldn't you be declaring a vested interest?

I am not a part of any tea party organization, but I do recognize the authenticity of their various (and disparate) organizations and the widespread public support that started them.

Perhaps you have lived too long among the sheep.

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@Cycloptichorn,

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@izzythepush,

He doesn't need to declare it izzy. It sticks out like a er er.......think of a simile which is not a cliche, doesn't insult George too much and isn't all that forced.

Expecting George to have any other interest than the one he has is like expecting a dog not to bark when it hears a suspicious footfall.

I wouldn't mind betting that he's one of the more liberal members of the yacht club. His siggy line tells you that or yacht clubs have changed a lot.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

That stuff isn't fair Finn. It doesn't make any point either for the simple reason that any point can be made with the same method and they are all equally worthless. Those to whom it does make a point have got more than their knickers showing.

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@spendius,

waterboy snickers at stuff like that.

it's a mouth breather thing...

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@spendius,

It's also ungallant.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

Expecting George to have any other interest than the one he has is like expecting a dog not to bark when it hears a suspicious footfall.

A particularly insipid tautology.

spendius wrote:

I wouldn't mind betting that he's one of the more liberal members of the yacht club. His siggy line tells you that or yacht clubs have changed a lot.

Apparently that club bothers you a lot. Too bad, It's a pleasant place and fun. Come visit - I'll take you there and we will enjoy a meal with a spectacular view of the golden gate, a good bottle of wine, and perhaps some pleasant conversation.

The signature line is from the bard .... William Butler Yeats.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

A country without an ideological consensus is not a country at all but simply an aggregate of living organisms.

I've been thinking along the same lines. That is, a group of people with a government, but no nation.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

He doesn't need to declare it izzy. It sticks out like a er er.......think of a simile which is not a cliche, doesn't insult George too much and isn't all that forced.

A rear admiral in a chicken factory.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

That stuff isn't fair Finn. It doesn't make any point either for the simple reason that any point can be made with the same method and they are all equally worthless. Those to whom it does make a point have got more than their knickers showing.

Oh please spendius.

Casting Obama and his minions in Thomas Couture's Romans of Decadence produces a quite clever parody. Is it the bare breasts than have your knickers in a twist?

The images of Keith Olberman and the Salahis alone are very funny, and the entire picture can serve as a dinner party game in which your guests take turns identifying the various players.

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@georgeob1,

I don't thing it was a tautology George. I can think of less insipid comparisons if you like but I tend to be more polite in expression than I am in thought. I ran a good few reflex actions past my critical faculties but they were all unsuitable really.

The club doesn't bother me at all. It is simply an ideal vehicle for a Veblen fan to have fun with.

I can understand why the US educational establishment has the sage on Ignore. It can't face up to him. And perhaps it's just as well but that doesn't take the lulz out of it.

Thanks for the invitation but I never travel. I'm a cautious man and I might even be said to be timid just as Allan Quatermain confessed to being in King Solomon's Mines. Have you read that masterpiece? You ought to. It was written for blokes our age as well as for the young lads. I trust that siggy is as far as you go with WBY.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Why is it clever? It requires no original ideas and is easy to do. It's a version of that seaside attraction where you put your head through a hole and come out looking like a fat washerwoman or a Gestapo officer. For 50 pence.

Used as you did it is unfair. It's the sort of thing that people do who didn't notice Mrs Obama's frock at the Dems acceptance speech gig. That was real.

And dinner parties where guests take turns at identifying celebs, major and minor, are not my cup of tea.

I've had a hold on a sufficient number of bare breasts to have rendered me pretty indifferent to painted ones at a painted party.

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@spendius,

We've got the yellow wellie brigade down here at the moment, you're welcome to come down and throw peanuts at them. Beer's a lot better as well, and I could splash out on a fish supper.

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@izzythepush,

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A rear admiral in a chicken factory.

Too forced. And not a good comparison either. I prefer a chapel hat peg but that's a cliche. A priests prick when he's marrying a beautiful young virgin. A reflex is required.

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@spendius,

It's not at all forced, it's in keeping with the character I had assigned to Bob.

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