The Lena Dunham ad that filled countless fainting couches
Apparently, the ad below has caused Republicans to triple their usual order for fainting couches. Kelly Fenton, deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, tweeted yesterday that Satan must now be serving as Obama’s campaign adviser. The always reliable Erick Erickson of RedState.com preached that it’s evidence “we live in a fallen world destined for hellfire.”
That noted defender of American womanhood and feminine virtue, Rush Limbaugh, even denounced the ad as “an insult to women everywhere.” There is no truth to the rumor that he and his pals then boarded a plane bound for the Dominican Republic, copious supplies of Viagra in their baggage. Or maybe there is, I wouldn’t want to speculate.
Anyway, here’s the ad:
The ad won’t appear on mainstream TV, and probably not on TV anywhere at all. It is designed to be shared, on Facebook and elsewhere, by those for whom it is a target audience and who, given the comments of leading Republicans such as Richard Mourdock of Indiana and Todd Akin of Missouri, might have a lot at stake in this election. It was posted on Youtube yesterday, and already has more than a million views.
As for those outraged by the decline of today’s young people well, we’ve been down this road many many times before, now haven’t we?
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“Edgar! Edgar! Get in here and see what’s happening on the Sullivan show! It’s that Presley boy and he’s … ohmygoodness! … Did you see what he did with his … his hips? They let them do that on the television? My gracious! Did you see that Edgar!”
“It’s shocking, Maude, I do declare this country is destined for ….”
“Hush Edgar!! Hush! Get away from the TV, you old man, I think he’s gonna do it again!!
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Almost 56 years ago to the day in fact … (WARNING: NSFW!!!)
– Jay Bookman
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Georgia
October 27th, 2012
11:35 am
They’re not going to let the kids play football today with the Frankenstorm out there, are they? Come on. That’s asking for it.
barking frog
October 27th, 2012
11:40 am
Both Romney and Obama are so
squeaky clean that scandals like
this are the only means for tittilation.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:42 am
Lena Dunham was obviously the “best intelligence” source for the administration on the Benghazi video attack. She is the epitome of leftist intelligence. It all makes sense.
On a more serious note, the late administration of the lamented President Horndog proved 16 years ago there is a constituency for the scuzzy voter, and they all vote democrat. Obama recognizes that he has to eliminate his image of decency and firm up his base.
Michael
October 27th, 2012
11:42 am
I guess my daughter was one of the targets of this ad, since she recently graduated from Georgia Tech and will vote for the first time in this election. Luckily, she found work in a light blue state, so her vote could make a difference, unlike Georgia. I suppose she could be motivated by an ad made by another successful young woman; although, I agree with Jay that she has probably made up her mind and only needs to be reminded to vote. Although, living close to Indiana and that cretin running for the senate and also close to the other leading cretin – Joe Walsh – probably has already given her a lot of motivation.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:43 am
Why didn’t Obama have his daughters make that campaign video?
Oscar
October 27th, 2012
11:44 am
Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
10:06 am
Fleetwood Mac: “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. . .it’ll soon be here. Yesterday’s gone. . gone. . .”
Les Miserables: “This is the future, a world you long to see. Will you be strong and stand with me?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-X3VNZnva8
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Good song. Beenn playing it over and over.
Yes, I think we will all be stong enough.
Oscar
October 27th, 2012
11:46 am
Looks like a good ad to me.
Do cons think girls don’t know about sex?
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2012
11:46 am
back for a bit…
Civility is one thing, common decency is another. Stinkie’s mom hasn’t talked to you, why do you need to insult her?
Fred, I don’t think calling him “Stinkie” is very nice.
(Seriously, though, this is kind of an in-joke with F. Sink and me. Few weeks back I *did* actually say something rude about his mamma, he responded in kind with something rather humorous in response — don’t remember exactly what, but I think it involved meeting with our seconds and pistols at dawn — and I tipped my hat.)
…anyway, I see Jay moderated it out. I won’t re-post it, but it was really incredibly mild, actually.
Jay
October 27th, 2012
11:48 am
Maybe because they’re 14 and 11, Ragnar, not 26 like Ms. Dunham.
Good to know where your head’s at, though….
Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
11:48 am
Fred, 11:22 am
“i’m more interested in seeing the so called ‘charter school’ money grab being defeated than I am seeing Obama win in Georgia (or even in the US to be honest). I see more harm in that ‘amendment’ than I do in who our president is.”
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Fred, although I agree with you that the charter school amendment should be defeated because of its “money grab,” among other reasons, I must disagree with you regarding the fact that Romney would not do any more “harm ” to our nation than would Obama. In fact, I think Obama has done much good for our nation by sustaining it through the worst financial crash since 1929 that he inherited. That crash took 13 years to overcome. Obama started turning this one around in the first months of his administration and has had steady improvement since then. The stock market is up from 6000+ to 13,000+, no more 800,000 jobs losses each month, and 32 months straight of job growth in the private sector with unemployment down from nearly 11% to 7.8%.
I heard Romney deliver his agenda in his speech in Iowa yesterday and he emphasized the “choice” movement for schools. His intensity against “government” is way out-of-balance, imo, and Romney can do much harm to our nation, as a result. He plans to dismantle not only public schools for a private enterprise model for profit, but he plans to dismantle Social Security and Medicare. His consciousness of the average person’s plight is weak, imo, although he is now voicing otherwise to gather votes from the unsuspecting. I hope average Georgians will wake up to this about Romney. But they must break free of those social norms – and their social groups’ thinking – in order to vote for Obama who would work in their behalf to make their lives better.
(Romney’s speech, and my analysis of it and of the positive contributions Obama has made to the nation in his first term, are posted on Jamie Dupree’s blog thread of yesterday.)
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:48 am
Dear Oscar @ 11:44, strangely the Obama administration also reminds me of the French revolution.
bman
October 27th, 2012
11:48 am
“Looks like a good ad to me.”
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:49 am
Dear Jay, I can see are proud that Obama is putting that commercial out there for his daughters to enjoy. That is the democrat way.
Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
11:49 am
Oscar, 11:44 am
“Yes, I think we will all be stong enough.”
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Thank you for that confirmation, Oscar. God bless you!
Georgia
October 27th, 2012
11:50 am
I only have one question after viewing both videos……which one’s got the hound dog in it?
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:51 am
It is a shame that democrats don’t ever think about their own children when they do these loopy things. Not surprising, just a shame.
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
11:51 am
agnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:43 am
Why didn’t Obama have his daughters make that campaign video?
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Wow. I knew you were demented but now you want to hear a 14 or 11 year old little girl talking about sex? That’s just sick.
I also realize you think you are clever, but who the hell is President Corndog? You cutsie little codenames for democratic people are decipherable to folks NOT on your meds…………..
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2012
11:51 am
At the risk of going full-bore As The World Turns here…
I wonder if Jay has a daughter(s) ?
Scout, honestly, your question speaks volumes about how little time you must spend listening, compared to how much time you spend running your mouth. Anyone who has more than a passing interest in the blog would know the answer to that question you raised.
that you DON’T know… well, frankly, you should be a little ashamed. You’ve been here how long? Over half a decade, right?
sheesh.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2012
11:52 am
It is a shame that democrats don’t ever think about their own children
We do, Rags. We love them and want the best for them. Just as you do, or as I hope you do anyway.
Georgia
October 27th, 2012
11:52 am
Isn’t Lena Dunham the chick who drank all those Monster drinks?. (I take the forefront in bad taste ann coulter type textings)
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
11:53 am
Fred, I don’t think calling him “Stinkie” is very nice.
How so? How is it any different than calling you dB (short for decibels). I type Stinkie instead of F. Stinkowich. That’s not name calling.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:53 am
Dear Fred @ 11:51, good morning, I can understand why democrats would rather listen to sirens preaching sex than discuss ObamaCare or Arab Spring or all the other wonderful achievements of the past four years. Nevertheless, horny women are not really a campaign issue – President Horndog rounded them up with his speech in Charlotte.
Oscar
October 27th, 2012
11:54 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMShrurchRI&feature=related
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 27th, 2012
11:54 am
On Thursday night, at a working class bar in Bayonne, N.J., Reagan said, “I know what it’s like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.”
Why didn’t Ronald Reagan have his daughters write that joke?
On a more serious note, the late administration of the lamented President Horndog proved 32 years ago there is a constituency for the scuzzy voter, and they all vote republican.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:55 am
Dear Jay, do you think the Obamas should allow their children to watch the Obama campaign commercials?
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
11:56 am
Oh and dB? I didn’t know about the “affair” you were having with F.STinkowich (there I typed the whole damn name, happy) lol. I had just chastised Scout and then there you went. I try to be even handed………… You were joking (unbeknownst to me), but Scout wasn’t.
Georgia
October 27th, 2012
11:56 am
Florida 37 UGA 3 (halftime score) At least the bulldogs can blame it on the Lena video.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:56 am
Dear Kamchak, I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t voting Republican feel great for someone who always voted for incompetents?
Jay
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
“Dear Jay, do you think the Obamas should allow their children to watch the Obama campaign commercials?
We have a deal, Rags. I don’t tell him how to raise HIS children; he doesn’t tell me how to raise mine. Nor should you.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
Dear Kamchak, or are you saying Obama himself should have recited his commercial?
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
Dear Kamchak, or are you saying Obama himself should have recited his commercial?
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
ragsie: So why do YOU want to hear prepubescent girls making sexually suggestive radio ads? And again, who is President Corndog? You cutsie little codename doesn’t make a lick of sense.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
Fred @ 11.53, that was called “opening with a one-liner.”
(although for what it’s worth I do try to avoid making up pet names for posters. like you said, though, there’s nothing wrong with abbreviating. However, it’s “Sink,” not “Stink,” so I think that’s mildly rude. not that I really care.)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 27th, 2012
11:58 am
Dear Kamchak, I don’t get it.
Shorter pirate boy: IOKIYAR
M
October 27th, 2012
11:59 am
Wow, Rags…you sound *concerned*.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:00 pm
Dear Jay, do you think Obama should run his commercial only after 9 PM, and on XXX internet sites? Or is this a case of you just don’t care about other people’s children?
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:01 pm
Dear Fred, are the Obama girls prepubescent? Would you suggest they are too young to hear their dad’s commercials?
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2012
12:02 pm
the “affair” you were having with F.STinkowich
A heartbeat, it’s a lovebeat
And a lovebeat is a good vibration
Oh, a heartbeat is a lovebeat
And when we meet , it’s a good sensation
Listen to my heart pound
gotta run, later, maybe… have an excellent Saturday, everyong.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:04 pm
Dear M, good afternoon, we conservatives use the term “distressed.” “Concerned” does not really mean anything. In my case, I am just sad to see Obama throw away his image of decency. While I think he is totally incompetent, I also thought he was a decent fellow, like Carter and unlike President Horndog.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:04 pm
Dear M, good afternoon, we conservatives use the term “distressed.” “Concerned” does not really mean anything. In my case, I am just sad to see Obama throw away his image of decency. While I think he is totally incompetent, I also thought he was a decent fellow, like Carter and unlike President Horndog.
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
12:05 pm
However, it’s “Sink,” not “Stink,” so I think that’s mildly rude.
Well I’ll be dammed. I actually had been reading it Stinwich all this time. I thought it was a clever term for an F(’Ing) (sht)Stink (sand)wich.
Now I gotta figure out what a Sinkwich is……….
Oh, Frank Sinkwich is the first player from the SEC to win the Heisman. That wasn’t so hard to google.
SORRY SINKIE I honestly had your name wrong.
Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
12:05 pm
Ok, I have always leaned in the direction of “trying” instead of being silent, so I will post my thoughts on Romney’s speech agenda here, too, if Jay allows it to go through. It’s long but so was Romney’s speech, and I put a lot of thought and effort into these comments yesterday on Dupree’s blog: (Please forward my thoughts to any in Georgia you think may possibly be persuaded to change their vote to Obama.)
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“Thank you, Jamie Dupree, for publishing Gov. Romney’s entire speech. I had heard it earlier today and I had wanted to see it in print in order to be able to analyze it more thoroughly, so I very much appreciate having access to it, here.
Romney’s delivery was telling. He was forceful and absolutely sure he was correct in his judgments. He reminded me of the Romney who won the first debate, and his speech was full of bullet-like speed of delivery of facts to prove his points to his Iowa audience, much as he had overwhelmed President Obama by that same delivery/content style in their first debate.
The problem is – I see a dangerous man. I see a man as potentially destructive to our nation as was George W. Bush. I have studied enough of tje details in Romney’s speech today to recognize that it was as full of falsehoods as was his first debate speech with President Obama.
Gov. Romney displayed in this speech an intense aversion to government, almost as if government is the enemy of business and of the people. This is dangerous thinking, imo. He says that he will “save” Medicare and Social Security, yet he would privatize both and most know that that means that those social safety nets would quickly come to an end for millions of Americans.
Romney says that he will promote “school choice” throughout the nation. Translated, this actually means that he has a plan to dismantle public schools for quasi-private schools that are run by corporations for profit. Students for profit, in other words. This is not right, imo. Moreover, dismantling public schools will not only hinder students’ performance ultimately because profit will be primary even over academics, but dismantling public education will destroy the idea that government can foster public servants who desire to teach simply because of their love of teaching and of their care for students’ growth, rather than to gain personally financially.
Romney speaks in terms of “trickle down” government because he knows that the “trickle down” economic policies of Republicans of the past decades have not resulted in more jobs for America’s middle class. Their economic philosophy has been a failure but they want to turn that as a failure on government, thus the “trickle down” government language. George W. Bush practiced “trickle down” economic policies for eight years but where were the jobs created? President Bush’s economic policies resulted in the biggest financial crash since 1929.
Then, Gov. Romney critcizes President Obama for spending 6 trillion dollars, ignoring the fact that much of that debt came from having to create stimulus money to save the economy, including the auto industry, from the disaster created by Republican President Bush’s 10 trillion dollar deficit brought about by the Bush tax cuts and two unpaid for wars, which culminated in the economic crash of 2008.
Gov. Romney would dismantle Obamacare, in which millions of Americans now have health insurance who did not have it before Obamacare, including those with pre-existing conditions. What will happen in the future to those Americans who might lose their jobs when Obamacare is no longer available to them, if Mitt Romney becomes president?
All of the above are ways that the government has helped citizens that Romney would discredit and dismantle. Do not believe that Gov. Romney will be looking after the welfare of the working/middle class. “Talk is cheap.” He has never demonstrated a fervor to serve the middle/working class before so why should he now once he might be president? He has outsourced jobs overseas and has laid off Americans from their jobs so that he could earn a profit for himself and his companies. He will cut pensions, and healthcare from companies, in order to further build profits, in my opinion.
Moreover, Gov. Romney speaks of being a leader who will bring people together, and yet his policies will divide because they are so severe. Perhaps, he worked well with the majority of Democrats in Massachusetts when he was governor there because the Democrats in Massachusetts’ General Assembly never had an agenda to see him fail, as did the Republicans in the U.S. Congress who have stated and have deliberately tried to make President Obama a “one-term president”. We must see through Gov. Romney’s political spin.
He talks about 1 in 6 Americans now being in poverty and on food stamps. Where was concern for these Americans during the previous Republican administration? Of course there is more poverty in American now, but not because of President Obama’s policies, but because of those policies of George W. Bush, which Gov. Romney will only continue.
And, Gov. Romney will also continue George Bush’s dominating influence in the world, which is not the way the world is evolving, nor does the world today respect that type of bullying approach from its leaders. Romney has such fervor in the direction of seeing America dictating to the world that, again, I think he would be a dangerous president.
Finally, although it was not mentioned, Romney would reverse Roe vs. Wade through his appointments of Supreme Court Justices. Women’s rights will regress more than a half century under a President Romney. Women, please take notice and vote against this happening.
I hope the American people will begin to see through this man’s policies and intent and that they will come to realize how destructive a Romney presidency would be to America’s working/middle class as well as to fostering a lasting world peace, in my opinion.
Vote early for President Obama’s re-election. Gov. Romney proclaims that he wants change, but what he actually wants is a return to the same destructive and ineffective Republican policies of George W. Bush that President Obama has spent four years trying to overcome for the American people. Look deeply, and don’t be influenced by a bombastic and forceful style. Look to substance.”
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Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
Thanks, Jay!
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
“Rush Limbaugh, even denounced the ad as “an insult to women everywhere.” There is no truth to the rumor that he and his pals then boarded a plane bound for the Dominican Republic, copious supplies of Viagra in their baggage. Or maybe there is, ”
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Ditto the Chicago BathHouse called “Men’s Country”.
But then again…………Fats Limbaugh isn’t running for the leader of the “free” world either.
.
lol
Mr_B
October 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
“Dear Oscar @ 11:44, strangely the Obama administration also reminds me of the French revolution.’
You might have something there, Rags. Mitt and Ann DO seem a lot like Louis XVI and Marie.
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:07 pm
“Dear Jay, do you think Obama should run his commercial only after 9 PM, and on XXX internet sites?”
Why should an ad about voting for the first time be put on XXX sites?
This ad is not intended for middle aged, married, Christian Republicans addicted to internet porn who have probably voted before.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:07 pm
“Republican Party, Wilkerson said:
My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them, but most of them — who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that’s despicable.”
We have a good President that saved our country, no scandals and actually fights for the middle class. The total lack of respect and blatant lying is due to racism.
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 27th, 2012
12:10 pm
Pray Mary Elizabeth……………..pray.
For your own soul.
.
As the Stanford University drone study (PDF) found:
“Drones hover twenty-four hours a day over communities in northwest Pakistan, striking homes, vehicles, and public spaces without warning. Their presence terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities. Those living under drones have to face the constant worry that a deadly strike may be fired at any moment, and the knowledge that they are powerless to protect themselves… from June 2004 through mid-September 2012, available data indicate that drone strikes killed 2,562-3,325 people in Pakistan, of whom 474-881 were civilians, including 176 children.”
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:13 pm
Dear Mr. B, agree. I perceive you don’t really know anything about the French revolution. Urge you to read the chapter on the French revolution in Ann Coulter’s well-footnoted “Demonic.” Enlightening.
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
12:13 pm
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:01 pm
Dear Fred, are the Obama girls prepubescent? Would you suggest they are too young to hear their dad’s commercials?
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Most 11 year old girls are and many 14 year old girls are. Are you really that uniformed about the biology of humans? Are you not a homo sapien?
As to too young? I think that depends on the child and how far in the closet a parent keeps them. My daughter (10) said it was weird and maybe just a little inappropriate for a kid. She had no problem recognising the sexually suggestive nature of the ad, but then we have talked to her about “the birds and the bees” and inappropriate touching and such for a couple of years now.
Out of the mouth’s of babes. I didn’t think it was that bad, but she did. SO maybe you have a point and it SHOULD be internet only or only after 9, or whatever time the FCC sets for mature content.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:14 pm
Thomas,
So if they carry out another attack to kill more Americans and we did not do everything to stop them, what would you think then.Would you blame government.?
ATL Born and Raised
October 27th, 2012
12:15 pm
@ragnar Dude, take it down a notch. It’s not intended for TV. It’s a *viral* video. And it’s not really inappropriate at all. It’s tongue-and-cheek. Now all those Viagra and Valtrex ads on TV…
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:16 pm
Dear getalife @ 12:07, good afternoon, pretty early to be playing the racism card. As the two most intelligent men in America are black and opposed to the re-election of the president, do you affirm they are racists?
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:17 pm
Dar ATL, thanks, I was afraid the Obama administration was putting the video out where children could see it.
JamVet
October 27th, 2012
12:17 pm
The little slut, prostitute and FemiNazi deserves whatever is coming her way.
And Andy, raghead, Senor Digits and Del want the videos…
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:17 pm
rag,
It is the only logical answer. I did not play it. General Powell’s Col. Wlikerson did. He is a Republican.
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
12:18 pm
As the two most intelligent men in America are black and opposed to the re-election of the president, do you affirm they are racists?
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Who are these two most intelligent men and could you post the proof that they ARE in fact the two most intelligent men in the US? I would dispute that claim.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:18 pm
Dear Fred @ 12:13, thanks. While I appreciate your humor and enjoy crossing swords with you, I also appreciate good faith discussion.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:19 pm
There is a goop war on women and the right are racists. Too much proof to ignore it any longer. Just tell the truth.
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:20 pm
“And it’s not really inappropriate at all. It’s tongue-and-cheek. Now all those Viagra and Valtrex ads on TV…”
Great point. I loved those Bob Dole commercials.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:21 pm
Dear Getalife @ 12:17, but how do you explain Dr. Sowell and Dr. Williams? Their arguments are not based on skin pigment, but on policy selections. Are they also opposed to Obama due to “racism?”
Georgia
October 27th, 2012
12:21 pm
Romney is going on and on about “change”. At least “Obamaloney” was original. “Trickle down government” was great. But “change” is a blatantly obvious, “lets dress up like Obama and maybe people will think we’re democrats and they’ll vote for us”. There’s still 10 days for Romney to appear in blackface and sing, “I’m all over the rap”, like the patched-together FrankenGangsta he truly is.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:23 pm
“Dr. Sowell and Dr. Williams”
Who?
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
12:24 pm
Get: Dr. Sowell is obviously Thomas Sowell, a smart guy but THE smartest? I wouldn’t say so. Who Dr. Williams is I have no clue. Too many Dr. Williams’ to google
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:25 pm
rag,
Why did your party have to obstruct our recovery, lie about everything and hang their collapse around our President neck to try to cheat to win?
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:25 pm
Dear Fred @ 12:18, read ‘em and weep.
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/
http://tsowell.com/
I would cite Dr. Sowell’s “Vision of the Anointed” as the best political analysis every published.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:27 pm
Dear getalife @ 12:25, you err. The dems had absolute control of house and senate from Jan 3, 2007 until Jan 3, 2011. The economy started to recover only after the republicans retook the house.
JamVet
October 27th, 2012
12:28 pm
The female voter is merely another loser category for the right wing’s neofacists.
As evidenced by the fact that the last time that a Republican candidate for President of the United States of America received more female votes than his Democratic opponent was………….
rags, you are an obvious master of research, so I expect you will be the first to come up with the correct answer.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:28 pm
Williams is a teacher, whereas Sowell is a writer. Williams has a better sense of humor, Sowell has a wider scope in his writing.
Fred ™
October 27th, 2012
12:31 pm
Rags: I know plenty of professors………. and for that matter writers………
RF
October 27th, 2012
12:31 pm
“I thought the ad was tasteless and inappropriate.
My wife was offended.
Dems are desperate.”
Problem is, the President didn’t run the ad- it was made by an obviously strong willed individual and posted on Youtube. Nothing funded by or publicly supported by the campaign. If it offends, don’t watch it. It’s not like you’re going to have to see it during halftime today or anything.
The “outrage” over the video is very, very humorous, especially when you consider that beyond the conservative sputtering, it isn’t exactly causing demonstrations in Cairo or anything….unlike some other wacko videos one could mention.
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:31 pm
“The dems had absolute control of house and senate from Jan 3, 2007 until Jan 3, 2011″
No they didn’t. Not even close, Ragnar.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:34 pm
Just tell the truth rag, I am sick of the lying like children. Be an adult and tell the truth.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:35 pm
Dear Jam @ 12:28, good afternoon. As noted by Sowell in “Vision of the Anointed,” it is only the left that assigns people to blocs, to be pandered to accordingly. So the answer to your question is “Republicans pass and repeal laws for all, and do not treat people as voting blocs.”
Ragnar addition: The core difference between American leftists and American conservatives is in their “Biblical” master (Matt 6:24.) Leftists magnify the importance of “democracy,” whereas conservatives magnify “freedom.” The difference, as Dr. Williams has often written, is that “democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on supper.” In the Arab Spring President Obama magnified the virtues of democracy; when rebuilding Iraq, President Bush magnified freedom. The difference shows in the results.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:36 pm
The ad is good and it is for the younger generation, not old fat con racists.
Matti
October 27th, 2012
12:37 pm
Yes, we are all SO impressed by the moral character and integrity of a man who uses terms like “scuzzy voter.” Oh, please DO give us your opinion, Sir Gracious….
Mary Elizabeth
October 27th, 2012
12:37 pm
Thomas Jefferson was the one founding father who never wavered in his support of the French Revolution, even with its atrocities, as he acknowledged.
I wish that we had no need for drones and one day, I pray, that no human beings will be killed in war of any kind. I believe that ultimately we must choose love over hate for all human beings and that we must choose the practice of nonviolence to achieve that loving goal, pragmatically. War must never be glorified. I trust President Obama more than I trust Gov. Romney to work toward those ends because they are within his vision. I have no knowledge, whatsoever, of military intelligence which precipitates the necessity, in someone’s judgment, for drone attacks. I commend you, Thomas Heyward, Jr., however, for highlighting the destructiveness of drones. I deplore all war and the tactics within a war mentality which kills, maims, and tortures. I urge readers to read Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in which he addresses the moral dilemma any president must face between protection of Americans in the world as it is vs. the altruistic dream for the world’s future peace, which we must continue to believe in and to strive to create, even as we must use military actions in the present to protect our survival.
Jefferson had that kind of vision also – that one works and functions within the world one is given – while always keeping faith with a better and more humane world of the future as it will unfold in time if the eye remains on the prize of that ultimate goal for all humanity.
RF
October 27th, 2012
12:39 pm
“Too much proof to ignore it any longer. Just tell the truth.”
@getalife: I think sometimes they honestly don’t want to think about it. It’s easy to disguise it in more proper rhetoric and make it all about politics. I’ve got a number of friends who openly make very racially derogatory jokes and then swear up and down in the next sentence that they’re not racist. Many have an issue that they’re scared or embarrassed to admit with the fact that a moderately liberal non-white could become president and actually succeed. Their headlong, obvious determination to make him a one-term president is motivated, in some part, by their fear that if he succeeds, then truly anyone could become president, and that seriously threatens their comfortable position as the ultimate power elite in this country.
Jerome Horwitz
October 27th, 2012
12:39 pm
Much ado about nothing. I’ve seen far worse on network TV. And to you overly crtical angry old white boys on this blog – this ad isn’t directed towards you. It’s for hip young people who can actually think. No one expects you to get it, so, your criticism continues to be lame.
Hey Kam! Ready for the match tomorrow? Red Devils kick some serious Blue posterior! Glory Glory. And whatever happened to that Gunners fan? (Ir)Rational.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:39 pm
Dear Dannyx @ 12:31 and getalife @ 12:34, what alternative universe are you guys living in? Who do you think controlled the House from Jan 3, 2007 until Jan 3, 2011? Who do you think controlled the Senate for that period?
JamVet
October 27th, 2012
12:41 pm
rags dear, quit being such a dodge, dip, dive, duck, and dodge coward, show some backbone and just answer the question, for once in your life.
(You won’t.)
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:44 pm
Dear Mary @ 12:37, you reflect acquaintance with the French revolution. Agree that my hero, Jefferson, never wavered in his support of the revolution, although I think that is to his discredit. Wikipedia says 16,594 died on the guillotine, with an additional 25,000 street executions by the roving mobs. That’s a lot of people to die from mob violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
St Simons
October 27th, 2012
12:45 pm
all i can say is, after reading page 2, it is good to know mrsstsimons
can remove creepers from the general population with her signature.
howard521
October 27th, 2012
12:45 pm
Lisa Dunham’s remark is as tasteless as her big UGLY tattoo.
Poison in a pretty package …
OBAMA IS THE LOVER
WHO IS GIVING YOU AIDS.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:45 pm
RF,
Thank you for your honest opinion. I have watched their behavior with this President and I find it, disgusting, unpatriotic and unAmerican. The can not deal with the fact that whites will soon be the minority and this President winning proved this fact. They refuse to accept it and Col. Wlikerson told the cold hard truth. Now is the time to talk about racism and get it out in the main stream so white folks can accept they no longer dictate to other Americans their point of views.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:47 pm
Dear Jam @ 12:41, you demand I assume a falsehood – that “people are parts of blocs” – and demand that I then analyze as if that is true. Why would any rational person embrace such an opportunity?
St Simons
October 27th, 2012
12:47 pm
hear, here (whatever the sp, damn, i’m an accountant)
’sneaky’ ‘clever’ & ‘dodgy’ is soooo 2001-2006
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:48 pm
“Who do you think controlled the House from Jan 3, 2007 until Jan 3, 2011? Who do you think controlled the Senate for that period?”
ragnar, “absolute control” of Congress is a majority House and a filibuster proof Senate, which the Democrats had for about 9 months during those 4 years.
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 27th, 2012
12:51 pm
Sister Mary Elizabeth———
“I commend you, Thomas Heyward, Jr., however, for highlighting the destructiveness of drones. I deplore all war and the tactics within a war mentality which kills, maim, and tortures.”
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I commend you too……….for your piety and good words but…………….talk is cheap.
I will never vote for the less of two evils.
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Peace.and I’m out.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:51 pm
Dear getalife @ 12:45, I refuse to accept that Obama’s failures are due to skin pigment. It is strictly a failure arising from his ideology, that misbegotten belief-system founded on the Platonic theory that academics and bureaucrats are the smartest people on earth and thus must be allowed to tell the rest of us how to live. Adam Smith proved the folly of that ideology.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:52 pm
Dear DannyX @ 12:48, and exactly how many conservative policies were enacted into law during that period?
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:53 pm
ragnar, Democrats still have a majority in the Senate, how many judges are waiting to be confirmed? If Democrats had control of the Senate that number would be zero, but it’s not, far from it. Of course that is just one example, I could go on and on.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:54 pm
Dear Danny, would it not be more honest to acknowledge that leftists prevented conservatism from being implemented from Jan 3. 2007 until today?
DannyX
October 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
“Dear DannyX @ 12:48, and exactly how many conservative policies were enacted into law during that period?”
What does that have to do with your ridiculous claim of “absolute control” for 4 years?
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
rag,
There is no indivisible hand and the best you can get after a financial collapse is what we got from this President..
You can’t tell the truth because you would have to accept reality and that is too much for you to handle.
ragnar danneskjold
October 27th, 2012
12:56 pm
Dear Danny, we can agree that leftists think they have to have judges in place to implement the leftist agenda. Perhaps you will also acknowledge that Obama has nominated only people who deny that the Constitution is the rock on which our republic is built, preferring those with the view that the Constitution is merely shifting sand to fit the preferences of the times?
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:57 pm
rag thinks the dems vote march step like his failed party.
No rag, they don’t.
weetamoe
October 27th, 2012
12:57 pm
I saw a number of hilarious parodies of the ad. I wonder if Sasha and Malia saw it–and if daddy explained it. I wonder if it was inspired by the Pimp with a Limp. I wonder why Mr Bookman is so enraged by it all that he includes the filthiest smear imaginable against Mr Limbaugh. Your conversations with your friends must be quite disgusting.
RF
October 27th, 2012
12:59 pm
“the Platonic theory that academics and bureaucrats are the smartest people on earth and thus must be allowed to tell the rest of us how to live.”
Well it seems a bunch of republican congressional members and wannabes are all about telling us how to live, and actively supporting legislative mandates to do so. They make no apologies for wanting to legislatively control abortion and outlaw gay marriage. I’d say the guys on the right are definitely being much, much more decisive about that role, and that scares me to be honest.
getalife
October 27th, 2012
12:59 pm
weet,
Why drag his daughters into it con?
Quite disgusting indeed.