OVER HERE - THE SONG OF ROLAND
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 02:35AM Illinois politics are not for the faint of heart, although they are often for the faint of head. If you are a conservative licking his wounds (among other things) over recent developments in the USA, I give you two words to cheer your tax-hating gun-loving execute jaywalkers heart - "Roland Burris".
Who is Roland Burris our European friends might ask? Why the man appointed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill President-Elect Obama's Senate seat. Blagojevich is presently on his way to being impeached and imprisoned for trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder, which is probably the least of his crimes (having a name more difficult to pronounce than the Iranian's President and having hair that would survive a category 5 hurricane seem worse offenses).
Burris is a race hustler. A black politician who relies excusively on being black as opposed to being competent. He was the Attorney General of Illinois and has lost more races than he's one (the Illinois voters have consistently rejected him for state office which explains why Blagojevich is appointing him - revenge).
How funny is Burris? He pushed for a statewide ban on handguns, and when a year later it was discovered he had one in his home (unregistered) he claimed he forgot about it. He pushed for the execution of a man who was found to be 100% innocent - for poltical reasons. And my favorite - he has already built himself a mausoleum which states in stone that he was/is a "Trail Blazer". It has a list of his accomplishments and, in an optimistic mode, space for further ones. Suffice to say, he takes himself for granite. I couldn't make this up.
He'll get the seat, his appointment, like the pornographic magazine of the same name and morality - Barely Legal. The President-elect obviously has a lot on his mind,but he should have taken some time to make his opposition to this known, and with force. He did not, and that is not to his credit.
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He's been a goldmine for John Stewart. And to think he was worried about material with the imminent departure of the Bushies.
Though Im surprised the fire breathers havent claimed Obama the worst President-Elect ever!!!
They will.
no give the man plenty of rope Obama is already hanging himself
Yes on the scaffold of victory. While Bush gave the most bizzare press conference of all time.
The -huge- majority of Americans are looking on Obama with approval and want him very much to succeed.
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David Brooks of the NY Times, a thinking middle of the road to conservative and a must read, has expressed concerns over his ambitious agenda, saying last week something along the lines of " in a years time, Obama will be either a great President or a broken man ". I very much hope that he proves to be the former.
I very much hope that he proves to be the former.
Why do you hate America?
Because it's the Great Satan, you silly.
The other evening I saw a news item showing the commotion which attended the egregious Burris and entourage trying to get into the building...
One utter nit in his party - in Bugs Bunny's immortal pun (and this really has nothing to do with colour) an 'ultramoron' - claimed the officials, security, etc. were no better than the the cops who set dogs on the kids in Alabama...
Tom Lehrer really needs to come out of retirement if only in order to retire again...
Sorry, off topic, but i would like to congratulate the people of Minnesota for getting Al Franken over the line.
Franken is a great guy, in the Wellstone mode, and will be a great addition to the senate. Franken and Michael Moore were the first guys to really challange Bush and the new conservative movement. They deserve as much credit as anyone for its collapse.
He's a creep and a weirdo.
Minnesota has bizarre taste in politicians.
On the contrary, Michael Moore's exaggerated attacks on Bush gave Bush sympathy and a rallying point. False and/or enhanced accusations usually help the other side. Franken is quite odd, but occassionally funny. He's better than Coleman at least.
Phanthom: a creep and a weirdo?! Strong words, how is he a creep and a weirdo? Come on, have you read any of his books? What do you base these accusations on?
Mahons: I do not doubt that Moore is biased, but i think that he has been, in the main, truthful. Moore helped the people see that Bush was not a harbinger of conservative dominanation, but a simpleton and a fool.
I know that the media say that he is lier, but that does not mean that it is true.
Concur
Moore has his following to be sure, but he didn't hurt Bush at all. He's an intellectual and a physical slob.
Any harm done to Bush was done by Bush, by his wrong decisions, by his lack of assertiveness with out of control spending by a Republican Congress, and by his inability to speak or think intelligently.
I read " Lies and the Lying Liars " the last couple of chapters which were nearly unreadable. He was going on and on about fantasies about Anne Coulter in an unfunny and stupid way.
I'm just glad I didn't pay for the book - I borrowed it from a liberal commie friend.
'He's an intellectual and a physical slob.'
Yep, you have not read any of his books.
I saw "Roger and Me" and "Farenheit 9/11". The first was funny if unrevealing, the second was unimpressive.
Those who called Farenheit 9/11 a great film were almost exclusively from the "Bush hater" crowd. They loved the Anti Bush theme and ignored the fact that the movie wasn't terribly good.
OK, fair enough. We will have to agree to disagree. His books, though, are great, better than the documentaries.
'Minnesota has bizarre taste in politicians.'
Could this be what your talking about?
I remember Jesse Ventura from his days as a professional wrestler
Now there's a nice clean sport for you.
Ventura was also in Predator, which means that two of the cast of that film went on to win the keys to a Governor's mansion.
"This stuff'll turn you into a goddamned sexual tyrannosaurus...just like me!"
Was Jesse a good guy or a bad guy as a wrestler?
I forget
Remember hearing Godard saying that Shrub and Michael Moore deserved each other....
Ah, Godard
I was trying to think of his name.
Godard said of Moore :
[ that he is ] "halfway intelligent," "fails to distinguish between text and image" (an unpardonable sin to the Frenchman), and ultimately "does not know what he is doing." Worst of all, perhaps, "he's not even hurting Bush." ( from Power Line, but also many other sources )
Godard also said " Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.[Godard had not actually seen Michael Moore's film at the time.]"
Phantom,
The guy's an oaf.
(And if you want back-up a twit, a nit, a nincompoop,
Sorry, my imagination's gone somewhere else....
I liked the prankster he displayed in " Roger and Me "
But he never grew after that - and was fairly mean spirited when he confronted an aged and not quite there Charlton Heston when filming " Bowling for Columbine " --- and then chose to put the scene in the movie.
I really disliked that.
And I speak here as someone who does not like the NRA or the US gun culture.