Very funny. But I think Mr. Cole could make his point just as humorously without resorting to the sort of crude sexual imagery he just tried to shove up my ass like a string of rusty Ben Wa balls.

LMAO, Strange!

Guess who had lunch with our preznit today? Rachel Maddow

Well, it’ll make a change from watching RW nutbags’ heads explode.

Guess who had lunch with our preznit today? Rachel Maddow, that’s who! Hahahaha! Somerby must be dining on his own spleen!

Ha! Another one of Sourby’s weird obsessions, Eugene Robinson, was there, too. I think he’s well past his spleen and all that’s left is his wildly snapping mouth.

BTW, righteous rant from Cole.  Man, that guy can lay out some classics.

BTW, righteous rant from Cole.  Man, that guy can lay out some classics.

Yep.  It’s why when I cut down on sites visited, that one always is on the go-to list (and the RR, of course).

Guess who had lunch with our preznit today?

And guess who was too busy.

Arianna Huffington.

I sure hope he laid some Chicago-style thugness on those journalists…maybe even that “baseball/teamwork” routine DeNiro did in The Untouchables.

I mean, it’s all he knows. And if they say nice things about him now, it’s because he threatened them, like the thuggish thuggety-thug he is.

Thug.

In a thread full of great comments, this one by Susie Hatrack’s errantest knight is far and away my favorite: 

Any predictions who’ll be the first winger/puma to complain he only invited Rachel because she’s black?

The day Cole defected from the dark side was a fine day indeed.

The day Cole defected from the dark side was a fine day indeed.

No truer words ever spoken.

Methinks Mr. Cole has an odd fascination with the president’s pecker ~ he referred to it as a “Kenyan schlong” on failed speech night.

I could easily be fascinated myself by same except Mr. President is married and Michelle has better arms than me.  For now.

Excellent rant from JC. 

I’d just add this:  And if Obama plays any golf while doing all that, none of it counts!

Pardon me if I go OT but we haven’t talked about Sarah in soooo long and people still don’t like her:

Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin hit a low since Pew first included her name in mid-Sept. ‘08. She now is viewed favorably by 39%, while 52% view her unfavorably. Men were split on her, with 44% viewing her favorably and 45% unfavorably. But 58% of women turned thumbs down on her; only 35% were thumbs up.

The youngest segment surveyed, aged 18 to 29, were the most negative on Palin, splitting 32%-59%.

wtf, my goddamn comment got disappeared!

Ohhhh, he is such an adorable lil’ firecracker!

Aw, man, Cole hauled out the reductio ad hamsherum, and me without a browser that loads BJ comments correctly. Lemme guess, that thread looks like the opening scene of Gsngs of New York as reenacted by a bunch of poli-sci dorks who disagree on maybe 2% of the specifics. I’m right, right?

Man, being an Obama supporter these days is like being a Joss Whedon fan after Buffy moved to UPN. Look, the speech was disappointingly tepid and Spike’s centrality shortchanged other characters. That’s not an endorsement of a 2012 Grayson challenge or Charmed.

What’s eatin’ you, Gil?

It’s been said before, but it might as well be said again; there’s a certain brand of progressive commentator that, above all, wants the President to be in the trenches fighting the same day in-day out battle they are. Which is stupid, and not something President Rope-a-Dope has any interest in. But that’s basically where the split is.

Which is stupid

Alas, yes. It’s one thing to be a righteous, idealistic blogger who thinks he’s fighting in the trenches, and another thing to be the Guy Who Has to Slog Through the Mud, Step Over the Bodies and Stay Alive Long Enough to Fight Again Tomorrow. You can legitimately question his commitment and his principles, but you can’t judge the outcomes without acknowledging that even a Perfect Obama couldn’t slam through a Compleat Liberal Agenda through sheer force of will.

Well I think it’s just a matter of having different roles. Bloggers and columnists and public intellectuals and think-tankers can more or less make the best arguments without political constraint. And that’s awesome. That’s their job. Politicians, on the other hand, have to work within political constraints, especially when they have to govern. So even if they wanted to, a President as blogger-in-chief would go nowhere.