Wed, 01/21/2009 - 9:00pm — vastleft
A Day of Worthy Self-Congratulation
I'd just like to take a moment not to congratulate Barack Obama, but to congratulate all of us - America - for electing him.
While I am deeply disdainful of presidentialism, Obama as a person has built an image for himself that is about as close to a superhero as you can find these days. I consider myself an admirer and fan of his (though I do not see him as a Dear Leader, and think that Dear Leader-ism is dangerous - but I digress). And that superhero image - while exaggerated by a starstruck media - is grounded in some truly amazing qualities in our next president. Indeed, Obama's personal story is unfathomably compelling, he's a brilliant orator and thinker, and he's broken a race barrier that few thought could ever be broken. Indeed, his sheer personal awesomeness - and his ability to convey that awesomeness through the media - is so imposing it can make the rest of us mere mortals feel "not worthy," to use Wayne and Garth's terms.
He's really not joking, is he?
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Glad this is recorded.
This is pretty much why I never bother reading Sirota. The anti-village village suffers from much of the same illnesses as the so-called MSM*.
*As we saw during the primary, the herd mentality was not confined to the corporate media.
Only tyrants rig elections.
Paper towel, David?
In the same way that "come" is -- or at least I've heard that it is -- spelled "cum" in pr0n, I think that Sirota really didn't mean to write "awesome," but "awsum."
Just saying.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I lke some of the topics he writes on...
and the info in his posts but he seems to be as interested in how his writing can help himself as he is in the "movement." Not that it is necessarily a bad thing.
It's so over the top
That it's painfully transparent. It's fluffy enough that it make the most ardent Oborg blush. It's the most cotton candy-sticky and syrupy-sweet rhetoric.
Come one, now:
It's layed on so thick as to collapse under its own weight. Really, we just got pnked.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Why can't Sirota and his fellow Obama worshippers...
...just bawl their eyes out everytime they see Obama (like Sanjaya's special fan), and spare us their asinine thoughts?
OxyCon
Sirota then continued:
Not quite so worshipful after all, huh?
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
It's certainly less than 2% less worshipful
That he lay it on so thick in the first part is certainly not enough to pretend that the last part is done in any other fashion than half-assed. Lambert's excerpt reveals him to be, at best, disingenuous if he's not being trying to fool everyone, and at worst, an Obama follower. Your excerpt reveals him to be a half-assed Obama skeptic, at best.
He can be whatever he wants to be. That's his perogative. But, don't begrudge us for calling Sirota on his mindgames.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
lol wut
I guess I'll accept urinalysis instead of my lying eyes. Not.
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream