Comments on: Rodney King Goes to Cairo

By: Chris Vosburg

Chris Vosburg — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:50:03 +0000

I perhaps mis-hit the post button, so again, I’ll point out that the Shakes quote is about life itself, not the participants. The game is the bunk to start with, Mac says, and realizes that here is no meaning, as he had once hoped, but only– nothing, and despair.

Quite poignant, actually.

By: Chris Vosburg

Chris Vosburg — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:44:06 +0000

Faulkner also used part of this quote in his THE SOUND AND THE FURY,….

Yeah, he did, jeez, you could wear yourself out producing titles of books, stories, and movies derived from Shakes.

The Brief Candle, Walking Shadow, A Poor Player, His Hour Upon the Stage, etc., and on and on and on.

And that’s only a handful from this brief soliliquy alone.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:32:38 +0000

nothing totus say,s is going to change these people.they have been this way for centuries.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:29:42 +0000

indeed pityful jest pityful as gomer used to say..

By: Surfered

Surfered — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:44:16 +0000

In one of his rare, lucid moments, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got it right. Success in the “war on terror” can be measured by whether the number of terrorists is increasing or decreasing. The invasion of Iraq and prisoner abuse increased the number of terrorists. Maybe President Obama’s speech will decrease the number of terrorists and that would be a good thing.

By: pm317

pm317 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:41:07 +0000

Isn’t this the same thing Hillary said when she countered his “no preconditions, meet anyone, anytime as President” argument — that you don’t “grant” the privilege of your company to thugs and other less deserving people and use it as leverage. Mubarak knows what he is doing, I guess, especially in a society with pecking order to boot.

Also I think Mubarak rightly recognized that they were being used by 0bama. What is in it for Mubarak with this speech? It is all about 0bama.

By: tango

tango — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:04:41 +0000

But, but, but, the MSM tells me over and over, he’s a Constitutional scholar!!! You mean all those legal opinions and articles he’s authored and published don’t prove it?

Snerk.

By: Nellie

Nellie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:00:32 +0000

Hokma,

Having taught foreign (ie Arabs) for over 20 years at the college level, I also know that Hosni Mubarak sent a message not only to his own people, but also to Jordan and Lebanon that they do NOT have to respect Obama at all.

Does this imperil our national security? Absolutely, unless Larry can explain otherwise.

By: whoframedrudy

whoframedrudy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:34:41 +0000

“That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more”

… to God’s ears … to God’s ears.

By: trixta

trixta — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:09:35 +0000

Acts 4&5?!! Please, make it stop…

By: stodgie

stodgie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:16:17 +0000

perfect rube!

By: Remi

Remi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:42:51 +0000

I agree. Obama talks too much. The words just fly out of his mouth and his speech writer no doubt spends hours putting the words together, just so, making sure they are arranged together to complement his audience and stroke his ego at the same moment.

By: steel magnolia

steel magnolia — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:33:19 +0000

In old-school terms, what Obama is doing would be called a circle-jerk and I don’t want to be a participant.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:25:01 +0000

I support King Hussein.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:55:04 +0000

Obama openly admitting he “came to get the king’s counsel” (as in king of Saudi Arabia) will only INFLAME Zawahiri and Bin Laden and Al Queda.

But Obama needs Saudi Arabia & Abdullah to manage the Sunni countries for the Israeli/Palestinian issue.

Zawahiri is Egyptian; Bin Laden is Saudi Arabian. Resentment of their own country’s leaders pandering to American presidents is one of their main motivations.