In the meantime, note this:
No votes for women! According to tea party leader Janis Lane, women are simply too diabolical to be granted suffrage.
"I can no longer support a system..." Further proving that the ultra-affluent have no loyalty to anything beyond themselves, time-share king David Siegel (builder of the world's largest mansion and subject of a recent documentary) told his employees to vote Romney or else.
While the media wants to tell you to believe the "1 percenters" are bad, I'm telling you they are not. They create most of the jobs. If you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the "1%"; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country.My response? Shrug, Atlas! Shrug! Grab your techno-chested wife and hit that beach pronto!
You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, so will your opportunities. If that happens, you can find me in the Caribbean sitting on the beach, under a palm tree, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Look, if there's money to be made in the time-share game, then someone else will always be around to take Siegel's place. And that someone else will need employees. The problem with guys like Siegel is that they think they are irreplaceable. The best response to his brand of jackass narcissism is a loud raspberry.
Once you've made it, once you have enough long green stashed away to secure your future, why work? Hit the beach. That's what the beach is for. You deserve your Pina Coladas, Davey -- and the rest of the world deserves a vacation from you.
The politico-industrial complex. Stephen Colbert did an out-of-character interview in which he introduced a very useful new phrase...
New polls are starting to show signs of an Obama comeback. Of course, Obama could reverse that positive news if he screws up again. Truth be told, I was not entirely surprised by his quasi-comatose performance during the first debate. The man never struck me as a particularly riveting speaker.
Perhaps I may now safely repeat an observation that infuriated many people back in 2008.
This country has a history of extraordinary African American orators, King and Malcolm X being only the most obvious examples. Many have automatically presumed that Barack Obama belongs in that pantheon. He doesn't. He never did. People just thought he did. Obama does quite well with a teleprompter -- but when he speaks off the cuff, he is rarely better than just good enough.
Obama's great surge after the convention stemmed not from his own acceptance speech -- which, even with the teleprompter, was just good enough -- but from the rousing rhetoric of Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Joe Biden. Especially Clinton. That guy possesses an almost supernatural talent. The election would be in the bag if the Big Dog could substitute for Obama on Tuesday night.
Alas, there's only so much the Big Dog can do to win this thing for Obama; from here on out, it's up to Barack.
I think he can pull it off, though he may well stumble. The public doesn't demand a knock-out win, but we do need to see evidence that the man is actually listening to his opponent. More than that: We need evidence that Obama won't tolerate guff.
On a related note: Is it possible for a president to become a worse orator over the years? That certainly was the case with Dubya, who seemed quite competent in his debates in the year 2000. As time passed, he sounded like a drunk with a concussion. A subtler version of the same phenomenon beset his father. Reagan as well; word has it that he fell prey to Alzheimer's rather earlier than the public was led to believe.
Jimmy Carter never could give a damned speech. Neither could Ford. Their debates were as painful as ten toothaches.
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