Howard, they’re popping corks over at HotAir, too, on the new Raz numbers. As good or even better, new polls in Kali show Boxer’s best-known challenger in striking distance. One thing, however…
IT’S NØT WATERLØØ!
It’s not even Leipzig. It’s not even the retreat from Moscow yet.
When we see Matt Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan crawling through the snow trailing bloody rags and wailing “our emperor has been imprisoned!” – then we can look forward to a possible comeback, and a possible final confrontation, sometime still down the line. Until then, it’s early days.
Hot Air Headlines » Change: For the first time, Obama’s approval rating falls below 50%.
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Colin, lest we Zombies be lumped into the same boat as poor Rush (and I’m not even talking about my alleged substance abuse), I would like to add a word here to scoffers. To wit, we are not rejoicing at the dire straits our country finds itself in, nor are we demeaning the office of President of the United States. Rather, we don’t like the job %Oslash is doing, believe the country erred in electing him, and are glad to see the Ship of State seeming to right itself, at least on the high seas of public opinion. (God, I know I’m gonna regret that last metaphor, if not the entire comment. And it’s not even Banter Thursday anymore.)
July 24th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Does this mean it’s safe to put an “Impeach Obama” bumper sticker on my flex-fuel Suburban?
Steven from Indiana
July 24th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Steven: Vis-a-vis bumper stickers, I saw one recently with the message “Palin in 2012; Keep the Change.” There is some disagreement in my house and at my health club (I asked around) about whether it is pro- or anti-Obama. To me, it’s seems pretty unamiguously anti-, the message being “Elect SP, You Can You ‘Change’ (read: Ø).”
I’m wondering how you and others interpret it.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Howard…I think it’s anti. It is safe to put on your car unless you park near a Jewish Temple…in which case your car will be vandalized. Nothing makes Jews crazier than SP. You could even put “Hitler in 2012″ on your bumper and be safe at the temple…even lauded as being open minded by the Rabbi. But, SP will get you in big trouble with the “tribe.”
Steven from Indiana
July 24th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I’m reading a book that has, among other things, a lovely repro of an engraving of Napoleøn on his deathbed at St. Helena. I’m adding it to my collection of dead(ish) dictators.
“Able I was ere I saw Elba.”
July 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
What? Jews don’t like Palin? What’s not to like?
July 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Just kidding, fuster. We Jews love SP. I love her so much that being the only Jew in the world with a current private land Elk hunting permit (See Guiness Book of World Jewish Records) I’m going to offer it to her for the upcoming muzzle loading season. I’ve had my eye on a 12 pointer, but the lady can have it. Hey, do you suppose O could come along and field dress it?
Let us pray.
Steven from Indiana
July 24th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
‘Sokay, Steven, if you would be less interested in watching Palin field dress and would prefer Obama fill the gut dump, but I’m pretty sure that Saralah is going to have a lot more free time.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Steve, old bud, I would never guess that you would, even for a lark, prefer Obama to Palin as someone you might rather watch during a field dressing.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Barbara, did you mess this up on purpose? It’s not Thursday any more, you know.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Steven, a Jew who hunts? I guess you’re also handy around the house and have your own set of power tools?
July 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
fuster…There is no one else I would rather watch field dress an elk than Obama. Then, a speech:
“My fellow large deer sorta thingys. I come to speak to you in Colorado, the world’s center of the large deer kinda thingys, and to apologize for that Honkey who just shot you. He was, like you, a horned critter. A Jew. No longer will we blindly side with the Jew against our brothers. No more hunting cabins on deer like thingy land. We value your contribution to music and literature, too.”
Or something like that.
Steven from Indiana
PS. Howard: Back up a trailer, too.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
@Howard Portnoy: Howard, I fish, referee rugby, drink beer, drive an American truck, and do woodworking. I don’t even pay a landscaper.
Not sure I’m allowed to sit shiva anymore.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Steven. Now I got ya. You want to invite Obama because you need someone who can publicly speak nonsense at least well enough so that someone can figure out which sort of nonsense was intended.
Palin is sort of good to look at, but she’s a purist. Her nonsense is so refined that it’s near impossible to get it to resemble anything in English.
and it’s got to be about job creationism.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
fuster…I want to invite Obama to the elk hunt because I’ve also invited Cheney.
You do the math.
Steven from Indiana
July 24th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
OK, Bruce, I’m speechless. I also suppose I’m guilty of stereotypes to which I conform. I wouldn’t know what to look for under the hood of a car (though I once did it to impress a date), I’ve never fished, and I can’t insert a screw. I do drink beer as well, though not the crappy kind that comes in cans.
And as far as the shiva goes, here’s hoping you have no occasion to sit for quite some time. As for your attending, they’ll need you to make a minyan.
Steven, you left out the part that comes later when O says, “He’s not the deer kinda thingy I thought I knew,” followed by “It’s not about me.”
July 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Steven, try to remember that’s Cheney’s never shot anybody but his friends.
I did the math, you do the ducking.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sniff, fuster. If only that elk lived in the great state of Canada, he’d still be alive. Instead, he’s hemorraging in my pasture like the federal reserve. I admit, I was clinging when I shot him, but I swear, officer, I thought he had at least catastrophic medical coverage. Now Skippy and Sharpton are at the end of my driveway with signs, “Shitty Sheeny Shooters,” with a circle and a line through it. Woe is me.
Steven from Indiana
July 24th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Steven, no f***ing sympathy from myself or any New Yorker.
You just got to be ’bout half-bright if Sharpton is walking and the elk is down.
Unless you really are a die-hard Cheney fan and are incapable of competent threat assessment and targeting.
But keep talking to the officer. You might be entitled to Federal bail-out bucks or other doughs.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
CKM — are you at least saying that if we can burn down Moscow and get through the whole Elba thing, and get Wellington and Blucher and Bernadotte to all show up for a big battle, we can at least look forward to sending Ø to St. Helena when the Lady of Size has exerted vocally?
July 24th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
That might work, JED, but it would probably require the compressed time scale to re-elongate again. I could see Cap & Trade as Egypt, and Health Care turning into a long, drawn-out Spain-like campaign.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Vell, choot. If we’re all the way back there, Prussia and Austria still have years of being occupied to look forward to, Trafalgar hasn’t been met yet, much less won, and Obamaparte still has big victories like Jena and Auerstadt coming.
I’m losing heart with this analogy. Maybe we should pick something else. Alexander flamed out a lot faster. Perhaps we should start there.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
How about these guys?
July 24th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
As long as Themistocles and Salamis are on the horizon — okey-dokey!
With our shields or on them!
July 24th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Those are guys?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Well, one was a monstrous quasi-extraterrestrial epicene sort of dude, but the other was all man, Joe. Do you have a favorite book on that little dust-up? I’m a fan of GATES OF FIRE (which was going to be made with George Clooney as Leonidas – luckily never happened), but PERSIAN FIRE was dryly hilarious, I found, and made for an even better contrast with the movie. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn you never saw it.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:27 am
George Clooney as Leonidas???? No way, dude.
I fell into a torturous mental episode after realizing that I typed “Auerstadt” (huh??? whazzat?) for “Austerlitz,” which was, of course, the famous Napoleonic victory I meant to pair with Jena.
So let me just register that correction right now. Whew. Feel better.
July 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Way – or almost way, dude… Or would you prefer “babe”? Val-speak etiquette has never been fully settled on this one.
Auerstadt is stuck in your head because Jena is frequently paired with Auerstadt. The two concurrent intersecting battles are sometimes referred to jointly as Jena-Auerstadt, such as, IIRC, in the little war-game supplement I eagerly consumed when I was a little warmonger.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Which is why your having paired them in your original comment didn’t strike me as off – though Auerstadt is more a victory of Marshal Davout’s. Not pretending I have this encyclopedic knowledge always on the tip of my brain – though, if Richard Sharpe had happened by, I might have had the details at the ready. Am working off the nice little summary here
July 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm