If the reference to President Obama as ‘The African Prince’ pissed you off, you have been baracked and possibly the first use of an object with a fresh new verb.
I knew it, I knew it. Lately it was like either Obama really fucked up and misread the tea leaves on health care, or he’s brilliant and just ‘baracked’ the Republicans. I believe the latter.
Read all about it in:
Obama’s August Surprise
I continue to be awed by the genius of Barack Obama. His recent execution of “The Take-Away” comes on the heels of expert timing and implementation of “The Feint”. In a world where timing is everything Barack Obama put it on a gnat’s ass.
Join me below the fold as we dissect “The Feint”.
PS: Ken, Can you gimme some ‘baracked’ art work?
#1 by Freudian slip on August 28, 2009 - 7:30 am
Your cognitive consonance has yet to yield to the reality of the coming cognitive dissonance you should be experiencing.
If anyone has been barracked, it is progressives that supported this fraud.
Oh yeah, and the anti war movement. Where the hell are these people now? Were the protesters we saw when Bush was pres just astroturf (the cheap kind) for the Democrat opposition then? I use the term “opposition” very loosely as they had no trouble constantly voting to pay for the war.
Ok, so now Obama is equated to a car salesman on the kos. Beautiful, do you all hear that America? What kind of car is he trying to sell? An Edsel. No, that isn’t up to date enough, how about a Vega? No, too sporty. Got it, Obama is trying to sell us a Pinto!! It is 2009, if this is what passes for leadership and has progressives cheering, it is time to take up the hobby of putting tiny ships in a bottle.
#2 by Freudian slip on August 28, 2009 - 7:45 am
Sorry, even though progressives have been barracked like new grunt recruits in Army boot camp, the correct term for the kind of getting screwed and liking it is, Lights out soldiers!
baracked.
Lights out soldiers!
Ah yes, we be racked alright. Good luck with your African Prince, and be reminded that many an African Prince sold his own people down the river to unscrupulous people to be carried off on a journey…far, far, away.
#3 by Richard Warnick on August 28, 2009 - 8:04 am
That’s an interesting interpretation. However, I have not heard an unambiguous statement from President Obama that he will not sign a health care bill that lacks a robust public option that takes effect at the same time as all the other provisions of the bill. Until I hear that commitment, I’m not on board.
The reason is simple: without a public option, the individual insurance mandate is nothing but a huge gift to the insurance industry.
Obama’s secret deal with Big Pharma promises to be a huge gift to the drug companies. A couple of weeks ago, I called that the ultimate deal-breaker.
Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake does not trust the Obama administration on this issue. She has secured a pledge from 65 House Democrats to vote against any health care bill that does not have a public option.
#4 by Freudian slip on August 28, 2009 - 8:20 am
Poetry qualifies as art, I’ll do it Ken
Woe unto us we have been baracked
as ship taking water and economy cracked
soup kitchen and unemployment line
as families Salvation Army dine
He follow Lord Bush in wracking constitution
adding to abomination his own contribution
as missiles now fly over more sovereign country
we wallow on, bear witness to effrontery
Oh yes, our beloved African Prince
as he sells us his wares, and Constitution mince
there is nothing to say that would then convince
those that are cheering, we can only wince
The heedless momentum of this shivering cart
that once had a soul, and strong beating heart
If in this man you would put all your trust
to where shall we go when he our country bust?
The power that cheers besotted dead leaders
truly the chattel of bereft bottom feeders
onward to the world of rationing hope
useless eaters, and pharmacological dope
Yes, it will be like Huxley, a brave new world
paved over the dreams, the complaints far away hurled
into the goodnight of a totalitarian maw
You heard it here first, it is what I saw.
#5 by Richard Warnick on August 28, 2009 - 10:28 am
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald explained what he thinks is going on:
#6 by Dwight Sheldon Adams on August 28, 2009 - 2:27 pm
My 3-year-old could paint that mess!