of head-shaking events, isn't it?

Sometimes, audacious becomes obnoxious.

I can't wait to see what the superhero logo he's going to wear on his chest looks like. Maybe that'll be unveiled the next time he's getting some bad press and needs to change the subject again. Dubya had the Wild West as a thematic backdrop, Obama can have the world of DC Comics.

Oooh, wait! Maybe Two-Face? He starts out good, but then

Two-Face was once Harvey Dent, District Attorney of Gotham City and close ally of Batman. After a criminal disfigured half of his face with acid, Dent became the insane crime boss Two-Face who would choose to do either good or evil depending upon the results of flipping a coin

Heads, the 4th Amendment -- tails, telecom immunity -- who knows how Two-Face will decide!

Now is the eagle tilted to the left or the right?

Possibly it's on a swivel depending on the topic and day of the week?

See here.

I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!

...what's latin for "muscle little old ladies in the caucuses"?

It's striking the extent to which Obama has learned from the Bush years. To some extent, I admire the audacity of his propaganda, but does anyone think that those audacious staged set-pieces have served Bush in the long run? (I'm thinking in particular of the Commander Codpiece moment, May 1, 2003, but also of the use of large-print repeated words in the hokey backdrops that have characterized Bush's public appearances throughout his presidency.)

History will judge whether or not this faux Presidential Seal will make him look like a big jerk in retrospect. I'm just not sure images like this are worth the potential future embarassment.

government seals as being illegal. Fines and possible jail time.

Is this subject to that kind of law? Any lawyers know?

Bottom of post, Update II has the quote:

http://annabellep.wordpress.com/2008/06/...

And, yes, the similarities to BushBoy and Rove's campaign to get a virtually unknown, except for name, pol elected president are truly scary. We didn't really know what we were getting with George "Compassionate Conservative" Bush--and we don't know what we're getting with Obama.

Obama will inherit the powers BushCo as brought to the unitary executive, now abetted by a craven Democratic Congress in the FISA legislation, and will also, if he wins, most likely come in with an actual win if not a landslide. A tendency toward arrogance will not suddenly be turned to humility.

What will happen? I've never felt this way about any Dem candidate, that I simply did not know how the person would govern. Jimmie Carter was not a national figure, but he pretty much made his approach clear. This candidate??? Not much at all.

BTW, one of the rules of dating is that if the person tells you up front he or she is likely to disappoint you, you damn well better believe it. No matter how much you're trying to make your own dream apply to that person. Applies to life--and politics especially.

http://www.bythefault.com/2008/06/21/ver...

Can anyone translate his comments?

Obama's phrase is easier to remember--and captures that "playing possum" aspect of Obama and his campaign.

What will he be like and do when he's no longer play acting?

We coulda had a real candidate! Damn.

the obama campaign aren't fools? (at least i don't thinks so)

so what do they hope to gain from this?

is it to establish a sense of inevitability?

if so, isn't here another, less pompously presumptive, way to do so?

i'm baffled by this and a lot of other obama behavior that i consider arrogant,

and more to the point for a national politican,

NEEDLESSLY arrogant.

perhaps it's this

i’m baffled by this and a lot of other obama behavior that i consider arrogant,
and more to the point for a national politican,
NEEDLESSLY arrogant.

no need to be baffled.
just look at Bush's approval ratings.

Just as Bush could get away with virtually anything (like the commander codpiece stunt) when his approval ratings were really high, so too can Obama get away with anything right now because, as the "presumptive" Democratic nominee, he is the official avatar of "not Bush".

at rezkowatch

there's a list of weblog commenters in the "notes" - didn't read any, so can't speak for quality.

obviously, the "possumus" part of this is the great opportunity for ridicule,

and ridicule is the most deadly weapon in politics.

can we have a post here at corrente that is essentially a bulletin board onto which all are invited to put up their ridicule of this pretentious horse shit.

Possumus Ridicule-us?

or should that be "Ridiculous"?

a cite to a website(s) that would allow me to find out who is registered as "owning" or "running" a particular website.

http://www.whois.net/

But then, seals always bark when they jump sharks, right?

Seriously, which staffer thought this was a good idea? Who checked the art before it went out? Who signed off on the invoice?

Where were the advance people, who let this example of ludricrous presumption get onto a podium, and then on TV?

This is Dean scream-level staffing effort.*

Somebody's been drinking their own Kool-Aid, and that's not a good sign.

NOTE Dean's people should have gotten him the right kind of mike, and shouldn't have let FOX near the feed.

[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

they're using the GOP playbook word-for-word now--if not actually paying Rove or holding seances with Atwater.

English to Latin

Latin to English

Domain name lookup: WHOIS

thanks for the link in answer to my question.

more fun was the link to latin.

latin - my all time favorite language. it might not have been useful, but it was beautiful, and i learned a ton of history while working on it - alia jacta est, dicit*.

*feel free to correct.

thanks.

i don't know cummings work, except for the notorious,

or much of poetry for that matter,

but that is a delightful poem, and

"a watersmooth-silver stallion"

is just beautiful, beautiful language -

i'm not talking about the image; i'm talking about the sound of the english words.

I hope Denzel and Cuba both tell the casting magnates to get stuffed.

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Why wait and let someone else get hold of the narrative? Why share the profits?

Think Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars meets Gimme Shelter, but hopefully without the Altamont sequence. Probably will end up with one, but we can hope. If they'll include something as perfect as Bowie telling his audience to STFU during an acoustic set, I'll be well pleased.

Makes him look like a 3rd grader running for class hamster-wrangler.

trust for anything serious.

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Like this guy here

After processing with soul-disclosure software:

turns out he doesn't have one.

CNN-- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200...