Uncanny, innit? America's first and second black presidents -- wearing the same suit and the same inoffensive tie. Obie's is a little better knotted. That's the difference between Chicago and Arkansas.
Bill looks happier, though, doesn't he? And well he might. He, after all, got a second term; and there are still a good many fools out there who look back on his reign as a kind of Golden Age... okay, no, that's unfair. A Gold-Plated Age. But still. Who's going to have any nostalgia for the short-lived Age of Obama?
As usual, those wonderful photo editors at the New York Times -- the only people worth a hill of beans in that temple of Moloch -- found the right image:
Comments (29)
What are the chances of this robot calling up Amy Goodman and talking about 'Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraqi sanctions, the death penalty, Ralph Nader and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict' and then losing his cool near the end?
Posted by sk | December 19, 2010 12:41 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 00:41
"Obie's is a little better knotted."
I was gonna say. What is that windstrosity on Bill's neck?
Posted by FB | December 19, 2010 8:11 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 08:11
I remembering reading that a lot of people who voted for Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire in 1968 did it not because they thought the war was wrong, but because the United States was losing.
They didn't think Johnson was being tough enough on the Vietnamese. There were actually people who voted for McCarthy in 1968 who wanted to drop nukes on Hanoi. So naturally they slid effortlessly into voting for Nixon or Wallace.
I think part of the reason Obama won is that people thought the 90s were better than the Bush years. But they didn't think them perfect. They were sick of Bush so they voted for Democrats. They were sick of Clintons so they voted for Obama.
Then in 2010 the Republicans simply rebranded themselves as "The Tea Party" and people who were sick of both Democrats and Republicans voted for Republicans.
It would have been funnier if Obama had brought out Bush instead of Clinton though. I wonder how many people on the Daily Kos would have defended it.
Posted by Trail of Tears | December 19, 2010 8:27 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 08:27
you gauche knot
puss headeds
why billy wants that
late 60's Roger Moore Rod Taylor
med-coast tan-ed
big chin
barrel chested
brit-auusie hunk look
----- err
the pinking-gray celtic skin
and abandoned wasp hive hair
kinda gunks that look up some
gosh he's never been the same since they removed
that devil's cowl of fat
from around his heart ----
btw
the ties are not identical
billy has a slightly blue
bit of business
going for him there
not barry's insurance exec
hi ho silver
Posted by op | December 19, 2010 8:32 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 08:32
Well, at least we're in agreement on Obie's argentine number. Can we just say that it was a bad tie day all around?
Posted by FB | December 19, 2010 9:14 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 09:14
"the short-lived Age of Obama"
your so certain of this shortness ???
much about the ways of corporate amerika
vs mob-pop "rule "
weigh into this consideration
Posted by op | December 19, 2010 9:58 AM
Posted on December 19, 2010 09:58
...Who's going to have any nostalgia for the short-lived Age of Obama?
He made it safe for a Black dude to appear as the hero in those toothpaste ads that run in the back of my superhero comics.
You can't argue with success like that.
Posted by ms_xeno | December 19, 2010 2:49 PM
Posted on December 19, 2010 14:49
What is that windstrosity on Bill's neck?
Is it just me or does his tie knot look like the head of a penis? Perhaps it's some subliminal shit for the ladies, to draw attention away from the living pic of Dorian Gray directly above.
Posted by tarzie | December 19, 2010 6:19 PM
Posted on December 19, 2010 18:19
The Other Team might run Alfred E Neuman against Mr Hopiechanginess, and the latter might squeak back in. Stranger things have happened -- though not recently.
Let's start a pool on it. The only requirement for entry is that bettors can't do anything to affect the outcome -- like voting, f'rinstance.
Posted by MJS | December 19, 2010 11:48 PM
Posted on December 19, 2010 23:48
>>>short-lived Age of Obama
If by short-lived, you mean two terms.
He's a lock to win in 2012. The Democrat left will whine and whine for the next couple of years, as it does, and maybe one of the newly unemployed lawmakers, Grayson or Russ, will make noises about a primary run. (Slogan: "I Couldn't Even Hold My Own Seat --- Now I'm Ready to Take Back America!") Blah blah blah, on and on and on.... Old show in revival with new cast...
The Republicans will be in complete disarray. The baggers won't get their own nominee --- Big Money won't allow that --- but they'll force whomever the nominee is to become so misshaped and compromised that they will become unpalatable.
The SMBIVA's stay home. Or spread their votes to McKinney, Fulani, LaRouche, or maybe even The Rent is Too Damn High in America McMillan. Whatever. There's only 8 of you. What harm could you possibly do? The working class will not be hanging on your marching orders anyway.
Economy gets a little stronger. Obama keeps unloading some serious boom in Pakistan. He wins another term.
That's it. As the boys down at the tavern would say: The rest is conversation.
Posted by Milton Marx | December 20, 2010 10:40 AM
Posted on December 20, 2010 10:40
By the way, SK: Thanks for linking to the Bill & Amy show. I listened. He schooled her ass. The snarkerati probably think otherwise, but listen to his answers. That's an education for you right there, if you want to get out of your bubble for 30 min.
Posted by milton marx | December 20, 2010 10:45 AM
Posted on December 20, 2010 10:45
Thanks for linking to the Bill & Amy show. I listened. He schooled her ass. The snarkerati probably think otherwise, but listen to his answers. That's an education for you right there
He 'schooled her ass' in the art of interrupting, spin and deflection. Which, of course, is exactly what demtard Miltie means, as if that's all a good thing.
Posted by tarzie | December 20, 2010 11:22 AM
Posted on December 20, 2010 11:22
He engaged her questions, in great detail, for over 1/2 hour. That's a lot for a President talking with a highschool radio station. And some of her questions were just plain stupid. For ex: What the hell is a POTUS supposed to do about the number of blacks in state prisons in the USA?
I got news for you, coming from someone who grew up on some pretty hard streets, unlike the Southern belle who hosts this site: Here's a really good fucking way to stay out of prison: Don't steal or kill people, or sell drugs to your neighbors' kids.
And don't give me any bullshit about racism. Unlike the SMBIVA's, I actually grew up around black people, and for me, they are not some abstraction to be dissected on a Lefty Listserv. Most black people don't steal or kill or sell drugs.
And before you work into a sanctimonious lather: If a bunch of yo's were selling drugs in front of your little hipster homestead or in front of Al's address at 123 Sesame Street, you'd be dialing 911 in a hurry.
Posted by milton marx | December 20, 2010 3:01 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 15:01
milty ...come on
l'il billy
simply slick talked his way past her questions
among other topics of wonderment
i find it interesting he used
cyclical high
income and employment stats
to defend a structural economic policy
with long run conclusions we now see
and of course the pure country squeezins
about the fiscal deficit and the iron law
low interest rates => prosperity
sounds delightful now too eh??
the con roll
about Saddam holding iraqi children hostage
to end an embargo on his regime
is of course the same formal argument
used with a reverse result
to con cover
barry's a cave in
as the snap atop thois post
memorializes
the dusky skinned twin
just called his blushing pink soul brother to second this with kennedy esque "vigor "
and his own brand of country smoozery
who'd a thought we'd get 8 years
of potus bill
the regime concieved by the same hollywood zionics as gave us 60's hit shows
the beverly hill billies and green acres
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 3:46 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 15:46
milt-sock
on one point you fly too far afield
not of course this salt of the sidewalk self portait
that rings clear as a temple gong
but the drug phobia here
" If a bunch of yo's were selling drugs in front of your little hipster homestead ...
you'd be dialing 911 in a hurry"
au contraire senior caprophage
as johnny C used to say
when my only child was old enough to understand the source of pleasure
i regularly injected her
with primo horse from turkey
not all of us are drug prudes
or for that matter
utterly unfamiliar with
the opportunities
to be found in the narcotics trade
i understand tooning is a nice rile move
but you have to come a bit closer
to the mark
or planned outrage becomes
unintentional mirth
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:01 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:01
"Let's start a pool on it"
i must recuse myself
its not fair to allow a guy like me
with a time machine
to wager among friends
yes i'm always right
but i take no personal pride in the why
for that i thank lady lux
and her weimar time cabinet
you may recall my picto-toon on the same :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Rosa_Luxemburg_ND2.JPG
http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/caligari2.jpg
http://greg.org/archive/metropolis_prod_still.jpg
vol I the golem of berlin
vol II lady lux into the time warp
vol III being al gore
aka the big switch
well it was a comic a clef
btw
vol IV dame rosa Barry does lahore
http://media.photobucket.com/image/drag%20queen%20obama/louis444/Obama%20Collection/obama_in_drag.jpg
is in post production
as i type this
note the zionic side kick
barnstable frunk
i regret the shameless commerce
of it all
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:17 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:17
It's not the taking of the drugs that I care about, but the yo's conducting criminal activity on the doorstep. I'm not being a drug prude but a crime prude. I don't want the yo's outside of my house. This is an impulse you no doubt felt as the protector of your fair lass.
As for Bill and Barry: That's about as progressive as you're gonna get out of the White House in the present-day US of A. I take my victories where I can, even as I fight for more.
We're living in the same country, right OP? Or is there a revolucion fomenting out there that I don't know about? (Oh, wait, don't answer that. Some of your SMBIVA homeys think I'm the Five-Oh.)
Posted by milton marx | December 20, 2010 4:18 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:18
"every time I make a prediction, it turns out to be wrong"
borrow my time machine
the cabinet of lady lux
used in my picto-toons
golem of weimar
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Rosa_Luxemburg_ND2.JPG
lady lux nailed by the rat pack
http://www.morethings.com/fan/sammy_davis/rat-pack-dean-martin-sammy-davis-frank-sinatra-1961.jpg
rosa IS the POTUS with the modus
in
barry does lahore
--still in post production --
http://media.photobucket.com/image/drag%20queen%20obama/louis444/Obama%20Collection/obama_in_drag.jpg
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:26 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:26
"every time I make a prediction, it turns out to be wrong"
borrow my time machine
the cabinet of lady lux
used in my picto-toons
golem of weimar
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Rosa_Luxemburg_ND2.JPG
lady lux nailed by the rat pack
http://www.morethings.com/fan/sammy_davis/rat-pack-dean-martin-sammy-davis-frank-sinatra-1961.jpg
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:27 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:27
coming soon
rosa IS the potus with the modus
in
barry does lahore
http://theblacksphere.net/wp-content/uploads/ObamaInDrag.jpg
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:29 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:29
"This is an impulse you no doubt felt as the protector of your fair lass."
are u shittin me
i pimped her
for chrissake
sponge milt
square nutz
err until my common law son in law
threw me down a flight of stairs in 98
Posted by op | December 20, 2010 4:32 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 16:32
You were a real Sport.
Posted by milton marx | December 20, 2010 5:58 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 17:58
I never cease to be amazed at how much people think they know about the individuals who contribute to this site. Apart from Owen's tawdry low-life life, of course, which he has candidly described in seamy American Splendor detail.
Posted by MJS | December 20, 2010 6:33 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 18:33
Oh little ol' Miltie knows everything about everything, Father Smiff. He learned it all from the "boys" down at the "tavern" where his gutless wonder union dad peddled Miltie's teenage ass for free beer. Well, it's either that or Miltie's famously major case of short mans syndrome.
Posted by AlanSmithee | December 20, 2010 6:48 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 18:48
Eminem writes:
...I actually grew up around black people...
I don't think that "grew up" is the accurate descriptor here. Maybe you put on a couple of pounds, got bifocals, and lost some hair on top, but that's not really the same. :/
Posted by ms_xeno | December 20, 2010 11:28 PM
Posted on December 20, 2010 23:28
Hey, some of little Miltie's best
customersfriends are black.Posted by AlanSmithee | December 21, 2010 10:43 AM
Posted on December 21, 2010 10:43
>>>I never cease to be amazed at how much people think they know about the individuals who contribute to this site.
Not that hard, MJS. In your case, a cinch. You can take the boy out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the boy.
Your contempt for women and the lower orders advertise themselves. No further comment needed. One need only read what you've written. You're not a "lefty"; your advertised sensibilities are objectively much closer to fascist --- you probably can't wait for the brownshirts to march down 5th Avenue. (Scratch the surface of many self-described "lefties" and this is what you find.)
The USA cannot collapse quickly enough for you, so that your dream Reich can take over. Objectively, THIS is what the destruction of your hated "Dembot" Party will bring. OBJECTIVELY, the collapse of the Dembots opens the door for the National Socialist. What else would rise up in its place?
Your "Southern charm," however, manifests itself more subtly where the Jews are concerned: "Temple of Moloch"; your visceral hatred of Israel so far disproportionate to the Jewish's State's "crimes" as to be explained only by anti-Semitism. I'd expect nothing less from a guber, even if the guber has develped a silver-dollar vocabulary and the ruling elite's scorn for the Actual Working Class (not the abstract one of the Lefty Listserv).
And spare me the keystrokes on Israel's "crimes." The worst day in the Jewish State is a day at the beach in most Arab or African countries. No moral equivalence whatsover. But, again, if you see the world through the lens of the eeeeevil Jews, then of course you'd turn blind eye to the depravities of others.
Posted by Milton Marx | December 21, 2010 2:39 PM
Posted on December 21, 2010 14:39
tl:dr, Miltie. Let's just run that through the translator...
Pwog - English translation: "Pity the poor demotard party! I'm a wuff-tuff cweam-puff! You're all Nazis! Whaaaaaaaa!"
Posted by AlanSmithee | December 21, 2010 3:22 PM
Posted on December 21, 2010 15:22
The USA cannot collapse quickly enough for you, so that your dream Reich can take over. Objectively, THIS is what the destruction of your hated "Dembot" Party will bring. OBJECTIVELY, the collapse of the Dembots opens the door for the National Socialist. What else would rise up in its place?
I just came across this and I have to say:
Milty, you're a treasure. Don't ever change. The thought that the Democratic Party is the last bulwark against a resurgent Nazism—look around you: how many people these days self-identify as Nazis?—is going to keep me giggling for days.
Posted by Nullifidian | January 4, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted on January 4, 2011 14:00