Comments on: Did Obama’s love save those lives in NYC?

By: Dormaphaea

Dormaphaea — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:34:31 +0000

I see a pony! I see a pony!

By: DAB

DAB — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:31:25 +0000

Especially beware of those who are extolled as Great before they’ve actually DONE ANYTHING useful!

By their works, ye shall know them.

By: DAB

DAB — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:27:35 +0000

I also remarked to my hubby that the miracle must be due to “The Obama Effect”. Guess we’re just in for a whole series of upcoming feel-good events. I can hardly wait to see what more That One has up his sleeve.

By: oowawa

oowawa — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:13:56 +0000

Peggy Sue, all of my in-laws were refugees from post-WWII Yugoslavia. They suffered under the Germans, the Russians, and finally under Tito’s Partisans. The horror in that region of Europe was extreme. If any people have a right to warn us about “the great leaders and the collective euphorias they often excite,” it is these populations.

By: oowawa

oowawa — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:31:50 +0000

It’s clear to me that The One made a huge mistake by not getting The Pope to give the Invocation instead of Warren. It could have provided a more convincing context for the miracles.

By: Magic Puzzle Box

Magic Puzzle Box — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:29:10 +0000

I actually have been joking to my friends for months this song should be the Inauguration Day theme song.

By: Magic Puzzle Box

Magic Puzzle Box — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:19:01 +0000

It only counts as a miracle if you’re dead. If you’re living and you do miracles, they call the cops because you’re a crazy religious fanatic duping the masses, remember? If you do them while you’re living and they all love you, that means you’re one of the bad guys. I try to keep my theological explanations simple, so bear with me.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:50:59 +0000

All these images are scary, oowawa.

Strangely, I was reading through the collection of the 2008 Best Essays collection and ran across a line in a piece written by Charles Simic. The essay was about his Serbian ties and the craziness he witnessed occurring in the 90’s, things he wrote about from afar [and then, was accused of being a "renegade," or worse a CIA spy--when in doubt pull out the CIA card].

In any case, he quotes something his grandmother taught him, something that stuck as a kid growing up in post World War II, impossibly impoverished Yugoslavia:

“Beware of the so-called ‘great leaders’ and the collective euphorias they often excite.”

A blast from the past. That line jumped right out at me.

Simic’s grandmother may turn out to be a genuine prophet!

By: trixta

trixta — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:19:37 +0000

Pass the hot sauce please!

By: trixta

trixta — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:18:35 +0000

I was saying to my husband that it’s too bad Obama didn’t claim to be Catholic because if He had this non-fatal event would have counted as a miracle, and thus He would be on the road toward canonization. BTW, has Obama’s image miraculously appeared on any toast or building lately?

On another note, if this non-fatal accident is a sign of anything it is that EXPERIENCE and MATURITY matter as qualifications for anyone at the helm.

By: trixta

trixta — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:08:22 +0000

Actually, David Letterman (yes, that POS) claimed in all seriousness this week that the non-fatal airplane accident was a sign that things are going to get better. I kid you not!

By: oowawa

oowawa — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:17:05 +0000

:Some random opponent of Barack Obama photoshopped (or could photoshop) a picture of Obama onto the sun!

Cool idea!

Does it look something like this?:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WkA8USJcfPw/SRe_mN92OZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/YocsAhTCT5M/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg

Or this?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2606418934_3906832d46.jpg?v=0

Or this, perhaps?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/2279718287_1c865f6505.jpg?v=0

By: Vonnegut

Vonnegut — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:01:30 +0000

In other news…..

Some random opponent of Barack Obama photoshopped (or could photoshop) a picture of Obama onto the sun! You know what that means:

Obama believes he’s the Sun God! Not only a deity, but a pagan deity! What a self-righteous, conceited, arrogant, pompous, and anti-Christian scum That One is. Am I right?

OK, now back to reality….but only for those of you who are actually interested in it.

By: Dead man walking

Dead man walking — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:40:24 +0000

He is a creation of a committee

And what do they say, an elephant is a horse by committee?

By: Northwest rain

Northwest rain — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:32:32 +0000

0 is a flaming fricking CULT — a CULT He is not real — he is an illusion. He says he is a blank slate — and that’s what his followers do — the PROJECT their wishes, their desires on his empty suit (and brain).

He is a creation of a committee — and he and his wolf/wife/snot have had plastic surgery to mold themselves into the “perfect” couple.

WHO created this monster — that would now get the J.C. “credit” for this rescue??

Many humans are stupid — no common sense — ready and willing to follow a user cult leader.

I stay away from the MANstream media.