So it looks like Obama has finally moved on from his car in the ditch analogy to now comparing America’s current conditions to slavery saying, “It took time to free the slaves.” That seems a little harsh. Obama has been a tremendous screw up, but I still wouldn’t quite compare it to slavery. Plus, it’s not like the Democrats have a great record when it comes to that subject.
I guess Obama is still trying to come up with an analogy that doesn’t make his epic failing look quite so bad. And, as at all things, so far he’s failed. The problem is things have gotten way worse under him, and his analogies don’t cover that. With the car analogy, no one smashes up a car getting it out of a ditch. And with the slavery analogy, I don’t remember everyone getting way more enslaved before slavery ended. What he needs is an example of when things got really horrible just before they got awesome. I think I have just the analogy for Obama’s next speech:
“Remember: It took Carter to get to Reagan.”
Wow; I feel more encouraged already.
* Remember that you had to puke your guts out when you got home and spend most of the next day dying from a hangover before you were able to go out and find your car.
How about…”It always looks like you’re hurtling toward some dark abyss just before achieving a perfect ‘Peoples Utopia”. And on another matter, it’s not true that the correct Kenyan/English translation of my name is ‘The Amazing Mr. Flub-A-Dub’. That’s another lie made up by the Tea Party….
Being a black man from Chicago who never had a job, there’s a pretty good chance that Obama’s never had a driver’s license. If that’s the case, people probably weren’t all that willing to let Obama drive the car.
Judging from this video, he has no idea how to drive a car, and it’s not like anyone’s ever asked him if he has a driver’s license…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/07/30/VI2010073004584.html
How about “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”?
Well, he’s an evolutionist, so he could say, “It took trillions of years for the first protozoa to crawl out of the slime before penultimately evolving into me.”
Or he could stay closer to more recent history and say, “Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”
Really OT: The protozoa thing reminds me of the fact that the only animals I ever tortured were one celled amoebas. It takes some cunning. What you do is that when you have them under the microscope
viewmasterviewfinder, they get hot and try to amoeba their way away from the light. If you keep moving the slide to keep them over the light, they ultimately splode. Now, if Joe Schmo could figgur a way to put squirrels on slides and put them in microscopes, he could give up on bottle rockets.It…took….time…for……Enola Gay….to nuke Hiroshima?
Yeah, I got nothing. Just like Obama.
If you fail at convincing people you’re not a failure…then I guess this means you are a failure. On the other hand if you’re successful at convincing people you’re a failure doesn’t make you successful.
Failure is not an option. Crashing the country into oblivion is.
You gotta break a few limbs to find a good crap stick.
It took a lotta monyr, manpower, and effort to sink the Titanic.
Wow zzyzx, that’s a thought to ponder. A conundrum wrapped around and enigma inside of a jelly donut or something.
mmmmmmmm jelly doughnut
It takes time to fail on a Super Mega Awesome scale! I agree with Barry, give the poor man a chance to write his place in history. When he’s done Webster will put his picture next to the words fail, idiot, moron, baffoon, dill weed, snipe hunt, wedgie, nincompoop, intellectually challenged, retard, dweeb, reefer etc.
um, it’s always stormiest before the calm?
It’s always calmest before the volunteer squirrels show up for bottle rocketing…
Burma – I’ll have to start to scale up on the squirrel/microscope slide thing some to see if it’s feasable. I’ll keep ya posted…
well, ending slavery is no kind of comparison to what he’s trying to do, but it does suggest a comparison to what he IS trying to do- START slavery. So a better analogy for him to use for what he’s trying to do in America, would be
you’ve got to crush a few Fritos to line the bottom of a chili bowl with…?
it’s prety good except from the Fritos perspective?
i’m reaching.
The Alamo.
According to A Patriots History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen,
the first black slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619 but were viewed (at first) as indentured servants.
“… many gained freedom through expiration of indenture contracts. Some free blacks soon became landholders, planters, and even slaveholders themselves, and one was elected to the Maryland legislature. But at some point in the mid-seventeenth century, the process whereby all blacks were presumed to be slaves took root… Every American colony’s legislators enacted laws called black codes to govern what some would later call America’s Peculiar Institution.”
See, it took time for politicians back then to make slavery a permanent and hereditary institution, and we can’t expect o to bring about a similar, sweeping ‘transformation’ over night!