ZOMBIE CONTENTIONS

It’s been a long, weird Wee-Week.  To review the bidding:

Sunday: at 00:01 a.m., a time usually reserved for exectuions and meetings with Dick Cheney, Van Jones resigned from his job as Green Jobs Czar because he was a communist radical truther, but not because he  didn’t know what a green job was.  Glen Beck broke that story.  Monday: Labor Day.  Tuesday: Not-so-big Speech to school children.  Build Up to Big Speech. Wednesday: Big Speech. Thursday: The longest wait for the refs to pull out the yard flags to see if the ball got moved by the Big Speech.  Better: use a rectal thermometer, please.  Friday: 9/11 Service Day.  What did you do to help the President?  Oh, I wiped the handles of the grocery cart with antiseptic.  The Coast Guard decided to hold a training exercise.

Man of the Week: Glenn Beck.  Anyone who can get Keith Olbermann so tied up in knots (admittedly, not so hard to do) deserves a medal.  And anyone who can rid our government of truthers and Communists in one go deserves our heartfelt thanks. [h/t The Other McCain, via the American Spectator]

Jerk of the Week: Arlen Specter, who may just get the lifetime achievement award.  His “get Sestak” attacks on his campaign website haven’t been pulled even after this became well-known.

The Speech for the children: I’m with Heather MacDonald:

Why should students study, according to Obama?  Because they will develop “critical thinking skills” from “history and social studies” that will allow them “to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.”

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If the “critical thinking skills” that Obama thinks will “fight poverty and homelessness” led to an awareness that out-of-wedlock child-bearing is the greatest cause of long-term poverty in this country, I might reconsider my contempt for the critical thinking cult and for the ed-school mantra that education is about learning how to learn, rather than about hard-won knowledge.

The Big Speech: I’m with Joe Wilson and Yuval Levin, to wit, respectively “You lie” and “What Plan?”

Move-the-Ball Thursday: Like a movie that seems really cool on first viewing, but after two days, you really can’t work up the energy to see it a second time, the speech was technically one of Obama’s better speeches, but in the end meant nothing because he really, really is not looking for compromise and he really, really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  The most economically illiterate president ever refers to “profit” as “overhead” and does the Tinkerbell routine when it comes to deficit  spending.  Just wish really hard… Plus, nearly everyone is now knows how to give an Obama speech.  Really formulaic.  The straw men, the alliteration, the trivializing of opposing views, the infantilizing of the electorate.

More than any of this, however, is the well-founded perception that Obama is making this big push for something that even he admits isn’t a crisis, while the economy founders and millions log record time in the unemployment lines.

Friday: National Service Day, but if you want to remember those heinous “crimes” of eight years ago, go right ahead.   Remember, Dr. Tiller’s murder was a “heinous crime”, according to this White House. No word on whether the murder of an elderly handicapped man on oxygen who was protesting abortions on Owosso, Michigan is also a heinous crime.

Gold closed above $1000 per ounce-  you could hear the stampede to Goldline when The Øne said his “plan” would not add “one thin dime to the deficit.”  And you thought it was booing from the Republicans! [h/t Zoltan]

For laughs, Baghdad Bobbie Gibbs gets snippy with CNN.  Rule Number One: only get hysterical in the service of your President. Hysteria that distracts (and divides) will not be tolerated.

Go to Bing.  I’ve decided to make it my search engine of choice.  No more Google.  Bing’s on the homepage for me.

For a total non sequiter: