Only the leader of the world’s largest democracy; no rush.
And you can tell from the photo ABC Live in India used that they’re not mad at all.
Look familiar? And we made sure to watermark it. Sheesh. Now apparently its a stock photo.
Actually, that makes me smile.
Here’s the story behind the photoshop.
(If the ABC Live site take the photo down, there’s a PDF of it here.)
Since the numerous defeats faced by Republican candidates, there are some cries about moving the party further to the middle which of course means further to the left. Because that’s really been working well so far.
That’s a bit like saying, “Y’know, I keep getting all these burns on my skin sitting in this frying pan. What to do do, what to do? I know! I’ll pour cold gasoline on my head and jump into the fire!”
It’s time to get out of the frying pan and put the fire out by embracing the conservative core concepts:
Because if we keep trying to be Donkey-Lite, we’ll just keep on being Weak-Ass.
I have this cool idea. You know how before we attack a place we drop leaflets of propaganda to get them on our side? Well, what if it doesn’t work? What’s the backup plan?
Here’s what I’m thinking: We drop leaflets on our enemies telling them not to be stupid and evil. If one of them reads the leaflet and says, “Bah! I’m not convinced,” the leaflet kills him! That’s because the leaflet is really a paper-think killbot activated by a dismissive attitude.
I know what you’re thinking: Obama is going to be president and he’s never going to go for an idea as kickass as that. That’s why we don’t tell him. We show him the killbot and say, “It’s just a regular leaflet. Nothing more.”
And he’ll just look it over and say, “Bah! I’m not convinced,” and then…
Oh no. That’s not going to work. I can see the headlines now:
“IDEA OF FRANK J. KILLS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT: Race Relations Back to the Primitive Era of Early 2008”
This is why you don’t encourage me!
Now that Obama has been elected, racism is officially over — which is nice. Here are some interesting poll results, though. It says 29% of blacks didn’t think a black president would be elected in their life time (compared to 59% of whites). I always thought — and I’d say correctly — that a black president could have been elected for years if we just had a good candidate (or, apparently, a mediocre candidate in favorable conditions). If most blacks saw things differently, that means they’ve been going under the assumption that racism is worse than it is which explains a lot. Hopefully that will change now as Republicans don’t do well with people in a victim mentality. That’s not to say conservatives don’t fall for a victim mentality — such as worrying too much about the unfair liberal media — but it never helps us when we do. If someone is victimizing you, the proper conservative response is not to whine about it. It’s to either kick their ass or ignore them. Something to keep in mind for the trials ahead.
Cracked had an article about [LANGUAGE WARNING!] ways to deal with trolls in the future. A lot of the internet is kinda cluttered with idiots with too much time on their hands (editing Wikipedia at least gives some of them something somewhat useful to do), and I wouldn’t mind it being cleaned up a bit. I think the best solution would be to have like a separate rich man’s internet for people with basic social skills and then leave the unwashed trolls isolated to their own area to bite and claw each other.
I notice a few of the trolls who first appeared when Palin was announced are back. I guess it didn’t take long for them realize how empty their lives are after the Obama victory so now they’re back to pestering people. I do wish some journalist would do an expose on trolls and actually track down some of these people and show us exactly who they are. My guess is it won’t be that interesting (they’re probably just teenagers with little social skills), but I’m still curious.
(hat tip to Conservative Grapevine)
David Brooks latest article in the New York Times is mostly crap, but this part is worth reading:
This narrative happens to be mostly bogus at this point. Most professional conservatives are lifelong Washingtonians who live comfortably as organization heads, lobbyists and publicists. Their supposed heroism consists of living inside the large conservative cocoon and telling each other things they already agree with. But this embattled-movement mythology provides a rationale for crushing dissent, purging deviationists and enforcing doctrinal purity. It has allowed the old leaders to define who is a true conservative and who is not. It has enabled them to maintain control of (an ever more rigid) movement.
Remember: The biggest problem with conservative politicians is that they’re politicians.
Since Obama had no teleprompter at his meeting with Bush, I assume the President did all the talking, and I futher assume that most of the following were said at some point:
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* “I had a help-I’m-choking-on-a-pretzel alarm install under the Oval Office desk, but you can use it as a bucket-stuck-on-my-head alarm if you want.”
* “Congrats on your 70% approval rating. I was at 90% once. Change happens.”
* “On January 20th, tell your transition staff to bring a lot of “O” keys.”
* “Keep Ayers away from the Pentagon.”
* “If you close down Gitmo, you’ll never get Nicholson back for A Few Good Men II: Jessup’s Revenge
* “Seriously, it stands for Useless Nitwits. Check the charter.”
* “I had to learn this the hard way, but apparently ‘we want to work together’ is French for ‘shut the @#$% up and do as you’re told’.”
* “TANSTAAFL. Google it.”
* “Instead of bailing out the auto industry, have a campaign fundraiser and spread the wealth to them. I’m sure Good Will & Doodad Pro would be happy to kick in a few mil.”
* “You’ll probably just have to learn to live with the leaky toilet in the West Wing. Next time don’t take the plumber vote for granted.”
Anybody else overhear anything?
I know I should be upset about the election result, but as things have settled, I really have just felt a sense of relief. If McCain was elected, we’d be back in defensive mode for a guy we don’t even like and then it would be pretty much inevitable that the Republicans would have even bigger losses in Congress in 2010. I’m not even sure how conservatives would regain our footing in that condition. Our hopes would mainly lie on the Vice President, and what does a Vice President do? I mean, what exactly did Al Gore do his eight years in office? And Cheney was mainly just a boogeyman for the left.
Dennis Prager has an article about good things to focus on from the election, and I don’t think we can underestimate item 1. There’s always the rhetoric about how “This is the most important election evah!!!11!”, but 2004 was really key. That showed our enemies we weren’t ready to give up. Now the Iraq War is to the point that hopefully even Obama can’t screw it up.
The thing is, the Democrats were going to win the presidency sometime, and how long were we willing to be weighted down by sucky Republicans while we held that off? Now we get to start over and make sure our Republican candidates all follow the founding principle of conservatism: Kick-ass awesomeness.
