tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3272591189908856378..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: You want to know what I'd ask Barack Obama?Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37561212417734061852011-02-24T22:47:10.908-06:002011-02-24T22:47:10.908-06:00One of the persistent criticisms of Barack Obama t...One of the persistent criticisms of Barack Obama the candidate is that he'd never really stuck to any job. He's always been a climber. He's always felt unfulfilled with the job at hand, and seeing another job up the next rung, campaigns for that job.<br />This is in stark contrast to a personality who we are convinced possesses a true conviction for public service, such as Sen. John McCain or the late Sen. Paul Wellstone or Pres. Ronald Reagan.<br />So I would suggest that your question is unnecessary. We already know that Barack hates his job.<br />Next job The One has his eye on? Pope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87833754011743761252011-02-24T12:34:42.588-06:002011-02-24T12:34:42.588-06:00That just raises further questions!
Hermes Conrad...<i>That just raises further questions!</i><br /><br />Hermes Conrad ftw.Scott Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02459388007426664813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3626934072703661012011-02-24T12:04:07.230-06:002011-02-24T12:04:07.230-06:00"Ever read Atlas Shrugged?
(If not, now'...<i>"Ever read Atlas Shrugged?<br /><br />(If not, now's a good time as any).<br /><br />If so, what was your impression -- please be specific in your answer."</i><br /><br />Tendentious horseshit, ineptly-written rape porn and comic book philosophizing for brainless and emotionally stunted would-be kings.<br />A 1000-page penny dreadful, a bible for whining crybabies who have it all but want more.<br /><br />Whittaker Chamber's 1957 takedown of it in NATIONAL REVIEW remains the classic demolition of this lunatic hissy fit in prose.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37553027519855775742011-02-24T11:15:05.925-06:002011-02-24T11:15:05.925-06:00What's your favorite verse in the Old Testamen...What's your favorite verse in the Old Testament and favorite verse in the New Testament?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16941000777739128682010-01-04T01:53:44.072-06:002010-01-04T01:53:44.072-06:00I think Joe the Electrician is a phony. I mean, d...I think Joe the Electrician is a phony. I mean, does anyone believe that the President has a nose for phonies? Excuse me? Being a politician is about being phony. Yes we can. The audacity of hope. Phony as a three trillion dollar bill.Shrikebackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10225181803981365082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67133015077875493642009-01-19T20:58:00.000-06:002009-01-19T20:58:00.000-06:00Theo,Dude, you really had me there, I was totally ...Theo,<BR/><BR/>Dude, you really had me there, I was totally with you--until you had to go and ruin it in that last, brief paragraph. Parliamentary, eh? You have go to be kidding. That's why we have Europe and the UK, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>As far as your subsequent question, the answer's really simple: the more we devolve Federal power, the more bearable the job of President will become. <BR/><BR/>Simple, isn't it? Unfortunately, as Clausewitz observed of war, so too in politics the simplest things are very hard.Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3259452064091676722009-01-19T20:55:00.000-06:002009-01-19T20:55:00.000-06:00Thanks, blake -- I'll give that a try.Thanks, blake -- I'll give that a try.Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093453920666892035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29204499171730809442009-01-19T17:14:00.000-06:002009-01-19T17:14:00.000-06:00Hey ricpic,I forgot to tell you - I had to immorta...Hey ricpic,<BR/><BR/>I forgot to tell you - I had to immortalize that shit - you can see it <A HREF="http://themachoresponse.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-sweet-sweet-smell-of-political.html" REL="nofollow">right here</A>.<BR/><BR/>Hilarious.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53780575432152782502009-01-19T13:44:00.000-06:002009-01-19T13:44:00.000-06:00Lots of people have different solutions for this b...Lots of people have different solutions for this but what has worked for me is installing the FlashBlock plugin for Firefox.<BR/><BR/>What it does is make it so that you have to approve any flash before it runs. It seems to be the quantity of flash programs running at once that causes the problem.<BR/><BR/>Then you can set it for allowing all flash from a particular site (like YouTube, which only uses Flash for the main video).blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25504946017781751952009-01-19T08:58:00.000-06:002009-01-19T08:58:00.000-06:00Blake - Firefox under Windows Vista. I tried it l...Blake - Firefox under Windows Vista. I tried it last week under IE and there was no audio there, either...Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093453920666892035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79469045294363864172009-01-19T02:37:00.000-06:002009-01-19T02:37:00.000-06:00Joan,What browser are you using?Joan,<BR/><BR/>What browser are you using?blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41706022926042267142009-01-19T01:06:00.000-06:002009-01-19T01:06:00.000-06:00Atlas Shrugged was tedious, We the Living was gut-...<I>Atlas Shrugged</I> was tedious, <I>We the Living</I> was gut-wrenching. Most horrifying of all were Rand's biographies -- read the one by Nathan and then the one by Barbara Brandon to get two good, long looks at the woman. (shiver)<BR/><BR/>Anyone have any suggestions for getting YouTube audio to play? I've uninstalled and re-installed Flash multiple times now -- that usually does the trick, but this time, no go. It's very frustrating. You <I>look</I> great in the video, Ann -- wish I could hear it!Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093453920666892035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90277937770243483772009-01-18T23:39:00.000-06:002009-01-18T23:39:00.000-06:00Me, I've always read thoroughly and comprehens...Me, I've always read thoroughly and comprehensively. Call it a curse. (You ought. It is. I have.) Throw stones, if you like, in response.<BR/>I read every book Ayn Rand wrote before I graduated high school. (Years later, I researched and read her other, non-book writings, along with the ancillaries.) But then, I read, before graduating HS, bits and pieces of but more often comprehensively stuff that all sorts of people wrote; and, if not before then, then before I graduated college. And if not then, then shortly thereafter. (Then there were those many, many things that--thanks [I Think; i think] to mom & dad, I read before I reached high school, and even before junior high). I'm rethinking all of that, these days. Maybe less really IS more. Certainly the less said is the better.reader_iamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352836883752091339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31611169829310521892009-01-18T23:33:00.000-06:002009-01-18T23:33:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.reader_iamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352836883752091339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23905859597926216312009-01-18T22:51:00.000-06:002009-01-18T22:51:00.000-06:00From a comment above:"How did Michelle really get ...From a comment above:<BR/><BR/>"How did Michelle really get her $300,000 a year position?"<BR/><BR/>Lo and behold I find out today that Michelle's old position has just been done away with. I suppose she was the only person in the world who could do that particular job...strange, though, that a 300K 'job' was just sooo important that they have done away with it.SkaRebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904252660701243616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28176420144870820562009-01-18T21:50:00.000-06:002009-01-18T21:50:00.000-06:00I sort of skimmed, skipped, through Atlas Shrugged...I sort of skimmed, skipped, through Atlas Shrugged.<BR/><BR/>I remember thinking, at the time, that the attitudes that Rand portrayed were fantasy... and then, every now and then, I read some perfectly serious assertion that it's morally wrong to favor your own children, that altruism demands an absolute absence of personal interest, that it's morally questionable to want to benefit from your own labor or want your children to inherit, and that the highest moral good is laboring to give what you create and what you earn to people who have nothing to do with you.<BR/><BR/>And I think, wow... Ayn Rand was right.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61031344201464259272009-01-18T21:44:00.000-06:002009-01-18T21:44:00.000-06:00(but, I think term limits should be expanded beyon...<I>(but, I think term limits should be expanded beyond just the presidency, and terminal limits would be even better)</I><BR/><BR/>Terminal limits... you get elected to congress, serve for no more than 20 years... and then they shoot you.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83011789290697312192009-01-18T21:35:00.000-06:002009-01-18T21:35:00.000-06:00That just raises further questions!That just raises further questions!blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26190153134975032672009-01-18T19:47:00.000-06:002009-01-18T19:47:00.000-06:00dbp said..."Here is how I imagine Obama answering ...dbp said..."Here is how I imagine Obama answering Althouse's question..."<BR/><BR/>Very well imagined!<BR/><BR/>"Now I (Barry) have a question for Althouse: Is there anything that could make you give up blogging? Like if I appointed you to the supreme court or as AG, would you agree in advance to not blog once in office?"<BR/><BR/>Since I am smart enough to be a Supreme Court justice, I am smart enough to know that at this stage of the game, blogging is what I'm meant to do. If at some earlier point in life I could have escaped sex discrimination, the hippie movement, and a love-hate relationship with art, it might have been. But now, no, no, never.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62690423288654927292009-01-18T18:31:00.000-06:002009-01-18T18:31:00.000-06:00Glad you liked it Crack Emcee, but Rose wins the t...Glad you liked it Crack Emcee, but Rose wins the thread, hands down.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17335768308757878882009-01-18T18:22:00.000-06:002009-01-18T18:22:00.000-06:00ricpic,That shit cracked me UP!ricpic,<BR/><BR/>That shit cracked me UP!The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29814272567292705072009-01-18T18:02:00.000-06:002009-01-18T18:02:00.000-06:00And the light shone.And the people bowed down befo...And the light shone.<BR/>And the people bowed down before the light.<BR/>And the light ripped a giant fart.<BR/>And the people called it ambrosia.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3774076313063628832009-01-18T17:12:00.000-06:002009-01-18T17:12:00.000-06:00The question is not IF there will be an interdicti...The question is not IF there will be an interdiction of Obama’s Presidency by the Supreme Court, the questions are WHEN and HOW that interdiction will transpire — that is, if the USA is to continue as the Constitutional Republic that now exists.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04011502155494655727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28566578576900493432009-01-18T15:21:00.000-06:002009-01-18T15:21:00.000-06:00I did my little historical/constitutional piece up...I did my little historical/constitutional piece upthread, which is not as personality-driven as it might be. My interests are more institutional. I think it's possible to consider a change in the Constitution that might make the President into a Prime Minister, etc., but as a practical matter, it's impossible to envision a new Constitutional Convention that would be anything but a disaster and the end of the United States and everything it has stood for.<BR/><BR/>Too bad, because there are things, such as the intolerable nature of the Presidency and what it does to the occupants of the office, that I think need fixing. I'm interested in what the Constitutional experts around here think might be done, realistically, that could decompress the Presidency a notch or two.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I'm much less interested in the specific personality and personal issues of the occupant of that office. They become interesting afterwards, when they become a narrative, with a beginning, an end, and perhaps something we can take away.<BR/><BR/>It's often hard to make out the effects of personality, and it seems a little odd to even talk about it while great events are underway. We might have thought Bush's first term was going to be a Seinfeld Presidency, about nothing, but everybody knows Obama's term is portentous in the extreme. So, the main thing I want to know is whether he is going to be up for the job, and, if not, what in hell are we supposed to do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72046573120547062382009-01-18T14:38:00.000-06:002009-01-18T14:38:00.000-06:00Now I (Barry) have a question for Althouse: Is the...Now I (Barry) have a question for Althouse: Is there anything that could make you give up blogging? Like if I appointed you to the supreme court or as AG, would you agree in advance to not blog once in office?dbphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00457585811847604584noreply@blogger.com