Friday, October 21, 2011

Warning

I'm to lazy to look it up, but I've bitched about this on Xmastime ad nauseum.  There's an entire bloc of voters who voted for Obama, and then got frustrated when he didn't deliver them puppies and rainbows on January 20, 2009.  But instead of staying the course and insisting on pushing for a progressive agenda no matter how incremental, they said "oh, fuck it", which opened the door for watered-down, mildly effective compromises, allowing opponents to pounce "see, it failed!"   This ushered in the austerity-loving governors who, after about 4 seconds in office, voters realized "oh, shit."

It's like demanding to fuck Angelina Jolie, and being told you'd hafta fuck Scarlett Johannsson for now while they worked on getting you up in Angelina's guts, and instead of fucking Scarlett's sweet tang you say “forget it, asshole!” and instead opt for being ass-raped by that monster Kardashian girl. - XMASTIME

Today Sully nails it re: giving up on Obama cuz he hasnt delivered puppies and rainbows:
And if your purism demands staying home next year, do not complain when a global religious war breaks out. They've told us quite plainly that's what they want. Like a cold, sparkling drink on a hot summer day. War as a cocktail.

7 comments:

Marley said...

Ha ha ha ha,

"VOTE FOR OBAMA OR THERE WILL BE GLOBAL RELIGIOUS WAR"

You'd be hilarious if you could decouple your politics from your eye. You see the funny. You just don't know that it is funny.

Yea. "Sully" nails it alright.

Xmastime said...

the chicken little hysteria is fun, but if you remove that its really quite simple:

You thought A was atrocious. So when the time came you chose B.

B turned out to be disappointing to you. "Disappointing" is still a lot better than "atrocious," so you should therein do all you can to ensure B remains chosen.

But if you don't, then I don't wanna hear your boo-hooing when A 2.0 slides back in and returns things to "atrocious".

Marley said...

Your theory is decent. That starry-eyed libs and progressives thought Obama was sent from Jehovah to cure poverty, hunger and genital warts, and when he proved to be less adept, their rejection of him is akin to a self-defeating temper tantrum.

That said, it is an argument that presumes a certain homogeneity of his support, as if everyone who supported him is like you in their fervor, and thus, their rejection of him is every bit as crazy as if you did it. For you, I agree - to reject Obama after you have slavishly lapped his nuts (and after you have warred against his enemies so tirelessly) because he did not meet all your ideological wants is self-defeating.

But everyone is regrettably not you.

Also, the Sullivan quote was moronic and I never boo hoo (I expect 2.0 to have two terms, the second with a GOP House and Senate).

Xmastime said...

this is what happens when instead of actually reading things, you lazily subscribe to your old, tired Marlyisms that I'm curled up in my room crying and pulling my hair out "HOW COULD ANYONE VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN???! I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND IT"

for the 134,000th and last time until I hafta say it again tomorrow:

1) Im very aware there are many, MANY people who dont think like me.
2) I understand that doesnt make them "wrong."
3) I understand there are plenty of people who voted for Obama and simply dont like the job he's done, not just the voodoo-fooled hippy college kids who thought he'd deliver puppies & rainbows. Through their own reasoning things havent added up and they wanna see someone or something else.
4) I am talking about a VERY SMALL SEGMENT of the population who voted for him. Not you, not me, not most people. A small segment. Not "EVERYBODY!!!!!!!! OHMYGOD!!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!!"

Marley said...

"4) I am talking about a VERY SMALL SEGMENT of the population who voted for him. Not you, not me, not most people. A small segment. Not "EVERYBODY!!!!!!!! OHMYGOD!!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!!"

Oh. Okay.

That said, the use of the retarded Sully quote was egregious. After using "people of color," you're flirting with a ban.

Xmastime said...

It is over the top, although in his defense the target audience for it are fickle, emotional people who may not be interested in reading about Obama's slow, incremental change vs their vague HOPE/CHANGE RIGHT NOW!!! demands. People who emotionally argue Diamond Dave vs Sammy w/o realizing Van Halen sucks no matter what, in other words ;)

Marley said...

"People who emotionally argue Diamond Dave vs Sammy w/o realizing Van Halen sucks no matter what, in other words"

Now, you're talking clearly and with authority.