Good morning, hillbilly mouth-breathers! How are we today? Did we put our shoes on the correct feet and wipe all the drool off our faces before heading outside to plant turnips and whup our kids? Good, good.
Now go find a Democrat to help you read the rest of this post. I’ll try not to use words that are too big or fancy but if you come across something you don’t understand, your Democrat friend is right there to explain everything.
I’ve been concerned ever since I ran the reader poll that showed me that 95% of you are ignorant racists with sexual inadequacies. The world told you what to do but you won’t listen and I guess that’s because you’re just too dumb to know how dumb you are.
Well, thank God for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. They hope to bring the change you can believe in – if you can just try really hard to put down the guns and Bibles and burning crosses long enough to take some learnin’.
The first step is to only listen to the “correct” political commentary. Obama, :
The one thing that I want to insist on is that, as I travel around the country, the American people are a decent people. Now they get confused sometimes. You know, they listen to the wrong talk radio shows or watch the wrong TV networks, um, but they’re, they’re basically decent, they’re basically sound.
See, you’re good folks but you just don’t know what’s good for you. You listen to Rush Limbaugh, and that is wrong. You watch Fox News Channel, also wrong.
Now, he wasn’t clear on which radio or TV shows are the “right” ones to watch, but I’m guessing they would include all the ones who are blatantly and unapologetically in the tank for Mr. Obama himself. You’re too stupid and confused to know it, but that would be ALL OF THEM EXCEPT FOX. Your Democrat helper-friend can show you how to use your TV channel menus and radio tuning dial to find those. Try not to get any poop or slobber on those devices during your lesson.
As for why you’re so confused and misguided, well it’s simple. Mr. Biden it yesterday:
The Republican party and some of the blogs and others on the far right, are trying very hard to paint a picture of this man, they’re trying the best as they can to mischaracterize who he is and what he stands for.
All this stuff about how different Barack Obama is, they’re not just used to somebody really smart. They’re just not used to somebody who’s really well educated. They just don’t know quite how to handle it. Cause if he’s as smart as Barack is he must not be from my neighborhood.
Ain’t that the plum truth? I personally have never met anyone as smart or as educated as Barack Obama. Why, in my immediate family there are only two master degrees, one college professor, two engineers, one licensed P.A. (high-level medical professional), and one director of an honors math department. So, no, I just can’t handle someone like Barack with all his education and brains. It’s completely beyond my scope of understanding and it is yours, too. Don’t get confused by Sean Hannity and go thinking otherwise.
(That would be racist.)
You know who is smart enough to handle Barack? on the Huffington Post:
…if you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in brain power.
Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You’re an idiot. I mean that.
…if you watched those interview excerpts and weren’t scared out of your freakin’ mind, then you’re mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it.
…Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.
Vote for someone smarter than you.
Clearly, Huffington Post is one of the “correct” avenues from which you should be getting your information.
Well, morons, I hope this has been helpful. Frankly, I’m surprised so many dummies are even able to access my blog, seeing as how it requires taking your finger out of your booger-laden nose long enough to wield a mouse. If you’re like me, you had to have a Democrat turn on the computer for you and show you where to click.
In fact a Democrat is typing this for me right now because I’m so confused about how to handle Obama’s staggering genius that I’ve curled into the fetal position and am sucking my thumb, which I only stop doing long enough to shout out the N-word and ask for some juice and Froot Loops. After I’ve been fed, my Democrat is going to read aloud from Daily Kos for me until it’s time for my nap.
I’m going to try writing this on my own without using a smart liberal to help me with the big words.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What a bunch of assclowns. So when Barry is elected will he save us from the wrong information by shutting down those stations that aren’t giving us the ‘right message’? Yea, I’m not worried.
gonna go back to my guns and bibles now, I’ve had enough hope and change for the day.
You shure do talk purty, Ms Rachel!
Maybe I need a Democrat to explain the nuance of your post, I just found it amusing. And the Huffington Post piece I simply found disgusting. “tranny makeup”?! Wow I am glad the lefties are running on issues rather than lipstick or makeup!
funny.
btw, has BHO ever flown a fighter jet?
Or has he landed one on an aircraft carrier?
I guess I must have gotten into MENSA under false auspices. Even though I vote Libertarian, not Republican, I think Barack Obama’s all front and no substance.
Because, obviously you has ta be smrt to hangs wifs da celebraties. I gonna vote for him just on dat account. That, ans i dun wanna be racist!
Vote for someone smarter than you.
Since the commenters at this site seem pretty sharp, that advice would pretty much exclude most politicians of any political stripe.
My entire life, I have been treated to the spectacle of
1) GOP candidate- dumb and nice or dumb and evil
2) Dem candidate- God-like intelligent being who will usher in the Era of Freedom From Want.
Somehow, group #1 keeps kicking group #2’s ass. Hmm, intelligent. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
Great post. Wish I could understand it.
Love,
Hillbilly Mouthbreather w/ Doctorate Degree
By the way, my IQ is 135 :) Is that one of those numbers that the lower it is, the better it is? I better vote for Barry then.
PS: . Apparently having some sort of moral compass is for the morons too…
McCain’s response to the economic meltdown disproves any theory that he is a moron. He was clear, concise and knows how to fix the problem.
You forgot or Super-evil mastermind manipulating everything.
As for what Obama had to say, a commenter at Ace’s pointed out that he uses “they” when referring to Americans, in that piece. I wonder if he does that a lot. And I wonder how much McCain does it when he speaks of Americans. Does he use “We?” I’d really like to know.
I’d discount circumstances when either are actually talking about Republicans vs. Democrats because that is a “We” vs. “They” situation, but for referring to Americans in the general sense, “We” should be used. Well you know unless Obama doesn’t consider himself to be one of us.
Well said, Wachel. No matter how hard the Obama camp tries to shake off the out-of-touch-elite label, it still sticks. At bottom they seem to despise the people they claim to love.
On the dumb and evil meme: During Bush’s rookie year as President, I kept noticing how his enemies couldn’t decide if he was a moron or an evil genius. They kept flipping back and forth between the two characterizations.
Ain’t it fun being a dumb shareholder in a house-of-cards full of stupid people?
You know, I was straining my moronic brain here and I just realized something.
The Obamunist is just trying to heal our souls they way Jesus did when Jesus was a community organizer. For the first time in his life he is proud enough of America to come and heal us and how dare we low brows stand in the way of his anointment to savior.. er I mean his election to President.
Considering that the last time Barack Obama decided that the American people were being exposed to the “wrong” information he called the fucking Justice Department, this statement is rather chilling.
“I’m upset when liberals quote me out of context. Liberals are upset when I quote them in context.”
–Ann Coulter
I suppose we can’t argue with that one. : )
I’m going out on a limb here and stating that I’m pretty sure I’m smarter than both those assholes. But be that as it may, it doesn’t fucking matter. I wouldn’t vote for them if you put a gun to my head and said pull that lever or else.
Be that as it may, I’m wagering that the vast majority of the electorate, presumably some of whom are not as ‘smart’ or ‘well educated’ as the One and his slick sidekick, are going to take it as an insult to essentially call them stupid. Seems like it’ll play as well as the guns and religion thing.
Timmy!
I never put much stock in IQ tests, but now that Obama and the HuffPo have explained it all to me I realize my score of 140 must truly be meaningless. All this time I thought I was somewhat intelligent, but now I know I’m just an idjit and will hand my life over to the all-knowing saviour of America.
Also, I had a really hard time not giggling out loud like a ninny while reading this post at my desk at work.
On the up side, sam, this means that Seitzman will almost certainly follow his own advice of voting for someone smarter than himself. There really aren’t any other options on the ballot.
I liek milk!
Nice Post… me likey funny
Dere finished reeding. I can haz pie now?
Ethne, I’m still laughing about that post you linked to. By the way, Rachel, MoveOn’s ad offering free 0bama buttons is appearing on your site. Guess they’re trying to save us from abject ignorance, huh? Oh well, another dime out of George Soros’ pocket into yours.
Jon: Those are skills, which prove nothing! Any monkey can get skills and stuff.
(I’m willing to bet, by the way, that I’m provably smarter than the HP poster by any generally-accepted measure of the faculty.
And I have a degree in an intellectual discipline that’s completely useless in daily life, thus making me a no shit honest to god “intellectual” by training.
Therefore he must respect my opinion – which is that he’s a douche.
But more importantly, does he realise how much Kos postings like that hurt his cause?
I doubt it, since his kind never look outside the bubble, to see how anything plays to the unconverted. Reassuring his pals that They’re Special And Smart is more important than actually convincing anyone to vote for Obama, after all.)
(Irrelevantly, I’m tempted to click on the “get a free Obama button from MoveOn” banner, simply to waste their money and get Rachel some income.)
Ethne: No, vote for me! My IQ is allegedly 170. Somehow that still doesn’t stop me from doing a lot of dumb stuff. Who ought I vote for?
notaclue: They didn’t keep “…flipping back and forth between the two characterizations.” They were asserting both at once. We just weren’t picking up the nuance: “We don’t like GWB, and if you don’t understand and agree, you’re an idiot.”
Political note:
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday…
“…frankly I don’t like him,” she told CNN. “I feel like he is an elitist.”
Having a Lynn Forester de Rothschild type accuse you of elitism has to hurt. Unless, of course, you really are an elitist.
i r confoosd an stoopid but i laffd lots
luvs wachl
she funee
“We have a difference in brain power.” Libtard writer.
Gee, I always thought 140+ IQ was good. Thank you for informing me that I am just too dumb to know how dumb I am. Color me as a red-neck hillbilly mouth-breathing racists with sexual inadequacies. Well, red-neck anyway.
I know how difficult it is to fly jet fighters in the Air Force or Navy. Senator McCain was and is a fighter pilot. The nonsense about the A-4 being an attack jet is bogus eyewash. Fighter pilots consider attack jets as a fighter mission, fighter jet, etc. That is why the Hornet is the F/A-18, fighter/attack. The A-10 pilot is a fighter pilot. The AV-8B Harrier pilot is a fighter pilot. This is just another bit of bull that the left wing libtards are using to smear Senator McCain. As for my qualifications for this rant, 10+ years flying the F-4E/G Phantom II as a Wild Weasel for the Air Force in the 1980s.
Man, lots of good quotables out of this one…
I’m ambidextrous when it comes to fingers in my nose. Any finger on either hand can, and often does, fit into either nostril for excavating purposes. Some people just don’t understand true talent.
Disturbingly true, MightySam. Too much so.
And I’m w/ dogette, this post would have been much more enjoyable had I capability of reading.
TIMMAH!
Halp us Barac Ubama – we r stuk hear n Amerika.
We will have the last laugh in this one. I think the left is about to implode or maybe it already has.They are helping our movement and killing there’s. I hope they keep the crap coming so they will finaly die. The movement that is.
“Vote for someone smarter than you.”
I had a girlfriend once who tried that on me. She argued that she wasn’t smart enough to run her own life (unlike me) and that government was just like childproofing a house, and adults like me just had to deal with it.
Then she tried to drag me to the bedroom. Ewww. She ended up in the car instead,taken home.
What a brilliant campaign strategy.
Vote for Barack you stupid bastard!
Insults, they win a voter over every day.
Slow Joe Biden, he didn’t earn that nickname the hard way, for him it was easy.
Wachl wins the Interweb for today.
A truly brilliant post!
Sorry, they are NOT skills that just anyone can learn. I flew F-4s for 10+ years and I know that just anyone cannot learn it. Many can learn to FLY the jet, but not to use it as a weapon. Not evey pilot who graduates from pilot training gets to fly fighters. Only those who are several cuts above the average pilot student will receive a fighter qualification recomendation. About 25% of pilots will receive fighters.
Sigivald, you need a bit more research on the subject before you make such a blanket statement.
Now, Now, Miss Rachel.
You know hows I gets when you starts with all them fancy words and your high falutin ciphering. Especially when you carry them naughts, it starts my head to hurtin.
Scuze me but now I’ve got to go have sex with my sister, or she might be my aunt, or possibly both, it’s sort of hard to remember when you’re both your brother and uncle at the same time.
I wuv you Wachel
Can Obama make me smart?
You know, every time I read these type of quotes from Libtards at HuffPo or the Obama campaign, I go out and buy another gun, ammo, and cache making materials. These people will have no problems with putting all of us into camps / shooting us. It’s for our own good, after all.
Halp us, Barak Obammy! We r stuk in fli-over cuntree!
frum nub bum bum
*slobber slobber*
ghlunk ghlunk weezie dum dum
* picks nose*
gerrrrrrt!
*runs his fat fingers thru his lice ridden bowl haircut*
I tried picking my nose while I read this post and all the associated comments, but it’s tough to do while I’m clinging to my guns and praying for some extra brainpower. I need two tern in mai Mensa memburship card. Stoopud is as stoopud does.
Obama is an affirmative action candidate. He doesn’t have the SATs or the IQ to back up his marketing or he’d be bringing them up in every other speech. If he was anywhere nearly as intelligent as Democrats believe, he’d have happily agreed to McCain’s townhall offer and made the old man look senile.
Here, let me type really slowly in a way you all can understand.
Proof that Barack is the Obamessiah
Obama preached to the multitude by the side of the lake.
Obama created new states from out of the void.
Obama turned whine into Kool-Aid® for his followers.
Obama came to us carried upon a donkey.
Obama triumphed over the beast, the enemy of all men.
Obama was stoned and yet he has risen.
Obama’s flock has millions of sheep.
Obama will reign over us from a house with many rooms.
You must have no other candidates before Obama.
Obama will raise voters from the dead. Count on it.
If that’s not clear enough for you:
You’re welcome, uneducated, illiterate, unwashed masses.
Here’s a lolly. [pat on the head]
Heh.
Okay, let’s assume I’m stupid. I’ve been able to amass a tidy retirement fund, a stable of snazzy vehicles, a house on a small acreage. All it took was a consistent work ethic. That is the point the left will not admit. It is so easy to get by in this country, any lazy moron can get a job, buy a car, a house, get married, have a family. No government intervention necessary. In fact, we all know that less intervention equals improved productivity. But that doesn’t keep the left in Lexi. Me, I’ll stick with GM.
Now this is some funnee stuff. I almost choked on one of my toenails (I was chewin’ one at the time).
When I first saw the post I was soooooo excited that you had my daddy/brother’s and brother/uncle’s picture there on the website. I remember the day that was taken, like it was yesterday. They were so proud, they had just won the hillbilly triathlon. It is a grueling event that combines distance throwing of fresh cow patties, greased pig wrasslin’ and ends with a Rocky Mountain Oyster eating contest.
They won a brand new 1970 Chevy truck and a bride to share (she had THREE teeth left! Bonus!)
I needed to share the family joy. Now I need to clean the poop off of my keyboard. Dammit, I always forget what that white fluffy stuff in the outhouse is for!
Gawdam! That just makes me wanna go out and tie a libral to a tree an make him squeal like a pig…
luv it. rilly I dew!
For ate yrs now they’ve bin tellin’ us’ns that prezdint Bush is an idjit ’cause he’s only got digrease frum tooo prestijus skools of higher lernin’ … but anywun who voted fer him is amoron.
Wudn’t that make libruls ever beggar stoopids for votin’ for a metrosexyew’all critter what don’t have tooo degrease, what don’t know if’n he’s black er white er sumpin else, what don’t know if’n he’s a christian er a muslimator er what?
My hed hertz!
Heck, if we voted only for politicians smarter than we are …. how would anyone ever get elected? Since really intelligent people would NEVER run for office?
I won’t play in the IQ number game, but I, too, enjoy Mensa’s games … and unlike Obama, bought and paid for my house, and all my toys without creative accounting, and without set-asides, and without any government “help”. And I own a house I can afford and is still too damned big. And I don’t need a mortgage bailout, or a loan bailout, or to worry about how I will live after retirement. I guess, mostly because I’m just too friggin’ DUMB to ever vote for a thieving lying Democrat.
Here’s a very interesting article on Obama’s IQ, which estimates is ( 130-148) higher than McCain ( 133). At first glance it looks like a typical Obama love-fest, but then the author goes on to explain why OBama would be such a failure for America. It was quite refreshing, really.
“Your Democrat” as in “your evil twin”?
The little cartoonish devil on your shoulder?
The “perpetually condescending friend”?
(I have/had the third type)
And if THEY continue to listen to the wrong radio programs, Obaminions will AstroTurf the hell out of that program. I’m talking to you Milt Rosenberg/WGN radio.
Because the Obama disciples decide whose opinions are worth broadcasting.
You know the story behind those photos, right? Those guys are actually Boers from inland South Africa. Some of the Boers in that area have become damaged by generations of inbreeding because of their isolation and reluctance to intermarry with local blacks. The photographer deliberately sought out these inbred examples to contrast them with notions of South African white supremacy. So these photos are even more propagandized than they look out of context.
Fortunately for us American rednecks, there are a lot more of us, and any how fewer cultural barriers to marry across.
Not sure the point of this post. Just makes me sad when I see pictures of people like that. No one’s pain should be exploited, especially when they had no control over their circumstances.
Oh, it certainly has been. It has raised my perception of the arrogance of these people to a whole new level. I was stubbornly refusing to believe that it was possible to be that arrogant and condescending, but I was obviously wrong.
I just scared myself. Back to clingin to my guns and religion.
Ultimately, the leftists want to destroy our form of government and replace it with a feudal society where the few lords rule over the many peasants.
Trouble is, there’s this Constitution thingie, and the gun thingie, and the whole Internet and talk radio thingie. We’re getting in the way of their plan, man.
That picture hurt my eyes.
Halp us mistir Obama! We are trapped hear n foxtvlantd!
Pontotoc Bill – I do believe Sigivald was engaging in the use of sarcasm there. You know, as is nearly everyone else in this thread?
Now ‘scuse me, I gotta go out an’ buy a gun, cause I’s feelin’ kinda clingy about now.
I’ve never had my IQ tested, but I’d like to think that I’d come out as at least above average. After all, I’m being sent to learn one of the hardest languages at DLI. But I guess that’s all negated by the fact that I’m in the military, which I’ve been assured means I have the brainpower of roadkill.
And I guess my two passports full of about 20 years worth of stamps and visas to other countries means nothing as far as the liberal culture police are concerned. After all, I can’t possibly know anything about anybody else – despite having lived in several different cultures – since I plan on voting for McCain this year.
And I must have confused my taste buds somehow because they really like East European cuisine. I’ve even been known to eat and thoroughly enjoy Chinese, Japanese, and Korean foods. I guess I should remind my mouth that it only deserves to enjoy the food at my local McDonald’s.
On a (mostly) unrelated note, does anybody here know of a good place to look for housing in the Monterey area other than Craigslist?
Wow, I knew there must be a reason this place seems so comfortable…I’m the intellectual dimwit here with mere 136 IQ.
If memory serves the evil genius is Karl Rove and W is just a chin drooling mouth-breather. Haliburton stuffed W’s pockets with cash, Gitmo is worse than the Gulag and I think there was something about the military industrial complex in there as well. Someone ought to remind these asshats to stay on message.
The great State of Ohio takes a back seat to nobody in the redneck department. We have our guns and we cling to them. We have bibles and you can’t take them away. Above all don’t forget our secret weapon – the Amish, the most feared of all radical fringe groups.
Love you long time Wachel.
duz eny1 no wear i kin git a coppee uv raychl lukis 4 dummeez? i dun losted meye democrat
Yup, the donks sure have a great way to influance people on who to vote for, they influanced me to vote against them. Not like I needed a whole lot of prodding there.
That outlook of their’s tells me what the Obama camp’s opinion of the American people in general truly is.
How do they figure that labeling anyone who’s pro-McCain/Palin as morons is going to get us Real Americans to flock to Obama Bin Biden’s camp? The real morons are the ones who believe that that’s going to happen.
When you think about it, the only power Liberals have is the power we,(the crazy wild-eyed gun toting monsters) allow them to exercise.
The Liberals are not armed, cannot fight, cannot live off the land, cannot breathe if removed from their laptops for more than 10 minutes, and ultimately cannot really force upon us more than we allow.
The only power they( the weak) have is the power we (the strong) allow them to have. We grant them power because we are decent people. If they had the ability, they would strip us of everything , our guns, our faith, our money, our sports, our humor, everything.They would grant us nothing if they were able to, they would exterminate us like cockroaches.
If they keep pushing their luck, at some point we will kindly ask them to stop, if they do not comply, we will simply stop asking, or as Bonnie said; “The gun thingy”. We will take away some of their power if they continue to abuse it.
When taken in context, it is clear that he is talking about receiving information from non-science based sources to make science-related decisions. This was from a speech at Planned Parenthood in 2007, and followed his discussion of his support for age appropriate sex-education.
I’m not sure what my I.Q. is. I know my three children range from 125 to 150 and it can’t all be from my wife’s side of the family. My wife and I both have two college degrees with mine a B.S. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Our son got a B.S. in Computer Science with all A’s except for one B his last semester. The other two kids are both working on their college degrees with nearly straight A’s as well.
But degrees aren’t evidence of brain power.
I and I apparently was able to fool everyone because I had . The same thing happened to .
Yeah, we are all just who happened to graduate from the same college as Sarah Palin.
Oh God, I shouldn’t have read this at work. Trying not laugh hysterically is not easy!
That was great Rachel!
I don’t recall the exact number I got the last time I took an IQ test, but I remember it was somewhere in the “moderately gifted” range (i.e., 130-144).
This is absolutely the same as the “voting against their own interests” meme that’s been floating around since the last election. You know- What’s the Matter With Kansas?
What’s astounding is that they’re not even trying to hide their disdain for the “sheeple”, now.
But, I guess that makes sense since obviously we’re supposed to be too dumb to know that the liberal elite is belittling us. But, tell that to Lynn Forester de Rothschild- she’s the DNC member that’s dumping Obama for McCain this very day for this very reason.
oh dear god this post alone just added 6 years to my life from laughing so hard!
Demicrate heper. I had me a Demicrate lik that once. Tradeded it fer some moonshine. Poor moonshiner. He never did done fergive me.
So HuffPo wants us to take political advice from a guy whose claim to fame is he wrote the excreable North Country?
Why would I take the advice of someone who displays such an obvious lack of intelligence and class?
Besides, if you wanted to make the most clear cut case for Obama you should really insist that people vote for the candidate who says “um” the most.
Oh I’m sure it’s been around a lot longer than that. Liberals didn’t turn this arrogant overnight, y’know.
In fairness, conservatives do something similar when we talk about how blacks vote en masse for Democrats, but at least we have the decency to attribute this to incessant liberal propaganda rather than some innate stupidity in black people.
Obama’s got a purty mouf….
Rachel,
You forgot the ESL teacher and her daughters, the high school Valedictorian and the professional musician. And the Army veteran aerospace inspector. Yeah, we’re all stoopid hicks.
Those condescending assholes just piss me off.
Hey, how did you get a picture of my future brothers-in-law?!?
Only kidding, Strom and Ashley!
Not that they’ll be reading this, of course. Not because they don’t know how to use a computer; because this blog probably isn’t suitable reading material for eight year-olds.
wachel, you *gotta* tell us where you done found that picture of clem and eb, the scholars of the ozarks. is there like a website? “inbred hillbilly retards.org”?
that pic is just da bomb. i think i’m gonna put it on business cards, or something. ‘Clem and Eb, your hillbilly neighborhood expert realtors.’ “we know ever’ good place in the holler!”
Rachel, we laughed until we stopped. All the ‘Varks here are fans, now.
Feel the love!
I had a democratic counterpart read the preceding text to me. He told me that it said you must be dumb for voting against the grain and he couldn’t read what you said since it certainly wasn’t true. Change/Hope/Rinse/Repeat for all!
Obama fucking scares me.
News on the Palin Email is coming out
Someone already got Barack’s
(H/T to RiteWingFascist at AoS)
Cummunity Organizin. Whut yuh doo while yer decidin whatcha wanna be when yuh groz up.
Or could be a circle jerk. I know you aren’t supposed to start a sentence with and or or. Suck it intellectuals.
Would you scream like a little girl if I came by your house dressed as Obama for Halloween?
Rachel, I both love and hate you at the moment. I love you because you say what I want to say, only better. I hate you because I snorfled coffee through my nose about a third of the way down your post, and my head hurts like hell right now. But I’m smiling!
Oh, and I DID laugh out loud while reading this at work, but everyone here thinks I’m insane anyway, so no harm done.
The Liberals are not armed, cannot fight, cannot live off the land, cannot breathe if removed from their laptops for more than 10 minutes, and ultimately cannot really force upon us more than we allow.
The only power they( the weak) have is the power we (the strong) allow them to have. We grant them power because we are decent people. If they had the ability, they would strip us of everything , our guns, our faith, our money, our sports, our humor, everything.They would grant us nothing if they were able to, they would exterminate us like cockroaches.
You’re right. As a liberal I am incapable of fighting (eye roll), am not armed (true, though in the process of changing that), cannot live off the land (well, I CAN, I just really would rather NOT), and can’t live away from my laptop (except for the weekends when I go computer free because I just feel like my brain is melting).
As for stripping you of the following:
Guns – No. I will admit that I sometimes think that there are some levels of arms that I don’t think should be accessible to the public, but I also don’t think I’m informed enough to really make that call.
Faith – No. You worship your God or not if you choose. Please respect me enough to do the same.
Sports – Um, what? For example? I mean, is there some liberal jihad against curling I’m unaware of?
Humor – Please God NO – it’s probably the only thing that connects us all….I might not like the same kind of humor that you do, but believe me, if we all can’t sit around and laugh from time to time, we are sorely screwed.
Money – I don’t even know how to address that. Do I, as a liberal, want to take your money? I’m sure that simply by tagging myself as a liberal, the response should be yes. But I also know it’s not that simple. I think the only way I can address it is by saying I think we disagree on what to spend government taxation on. I don’t always think that making the pie bigger is the answer – I think that portioning it differently and encouraging people to make their own pie is the best way to go.
boogers help lube mah’ trigger fingur.
Truly amazing Rachel. And to think you wrote that piece without once looking at your Tele-Prompter…
Hey Rachel!
I had a Democrat help me find Joe Biden’s web page in the U.S. senate.
I had to tell him how very much I appreciated being enlightened.
Gosh, I hate being stupid.
time to bring back the aristocracy so the liberals can have real titles (king/queen/dukes/barons/etc).
they can all interbreed and turn themselves into the objects of their current criticism. Hmm, maybe they already have.
Just out of curiosity, are there any of you here who are simply mentally exhausted from this campaign? Because I am.
At what point did this election turn into mental mudwrestling? And that is rhetorical…I really don’t really want need any answer.
If I go to the HuffPo (which I occasionally do), I read stuff like this, it really pisses me off because I think all it does is distract from the issues. I spent part of my evening last night yelling at my mother to stay on point – and she’s a f’ing Democrat. (Sorry, she just REALLY pissed me off.)
Calling someone stupid for disagreeing with you is pretty much showing your own stupidity, no matter how valid your point. And that it’s passing for “insightful” debate is just pathetic.
OT, but important:
“DoD announces new Afghanistan rotation”
“Camp Lejeune’s 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, will form the MAGTF’s ground element”
My sons outfit.
Brooke, your journey to the Dark Side is almost complete. And we have cookies!
Oooh – if we bring back the aristocracy, as one of the few (only?) posting liberals, I’d like the following title:
HRH Duchess of Tasty Baked Goods and Asshole Cats
Please? Pretty please?
N. O’Brain, I’ll keep your son in my prayers.
Only if I get to be a knight, Brooke.
Steve – Cookies? The brochure never said cookies…Guns, yes – cookies, no….
Shhhh. It’s a very well kept secret. Don’t make me enforce that secret. Darth Vader breathing
Brooke, as far as money is concerned, I’m sure most people here will tell you that any money that goes toward social programs like welfare is money that could be better spent elsewhere. I personally feel like the government is robbing me of my money to give it to people who frankly don’t deserve it. The general conservative philosophy is if you didn’t earn it, you don’t deserve it. Of course, on the conservative side people are more than willing to contribute to charity and help people who are down on their luck, we just tend to like to know that the organizations we give it to aren’t going to just throw it away then come demanding more.
The government is not good at handling money and, for the most part, the liberal mindset is to allow that same government to take money and evenly distribute it. This is something most conservative or libertarian people have a major problem with. As I said before, if you didn’t earn it, you don’t deserve it. Government handouts breed laziness and dependence.
I think we can all agree that more accountability of funding is needed in government and that, recently, Republicans haven’t been the fiscally conservative party we expect them to be, but in general I dislike more the liberal position of taking money from earners and giving it to people who can’t be bothered to get off their asses and find a job or get an education so they can get a better job. Particularly since I’ve never seen no-effort success or free money mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.
hM – thanks for the thoughtful response.
Aah welfare….it is the true thorn in the liberal side. Guess what? I have a problem with welfare too. Or rather, I have a problem with welfare “perpetuity” – I strongly support work to welfare programs. I’ll feed you for free for a few meals, then you have to start helping around the house.
But there are other social programs that I strongly support, the two leaders being education and Medicare. Medicare because I have two grandparents who count on it (who worked hard their whole lives and should have had insurance provided by my grandfather’s employer, but as that company has failed, so have the benefits), and I believe one way we measure our society is how we care for our elderly. Education because I strongly am in favor of, well, education. And because I believe another way we measure our society is in how we care for our young.
Hey, cheeseball, amongst my 4 siblings and I we have 10 degrees; 4 engineering, 3 business, 1 physics, 1 biology and 1 economics. Do you notice a softy in there anywhere?
You want me to vote for someone smarter than I am, numbnuts? RUN someone smarter than I am.
And since I’m Canadian, kindly pass the message on to your fellow stupid, smarmy, condescending, UpNorth Liberal pricks.
DaveW —
Is that another pic of the Herbinator? I just LUV that dog!
you are freakin genius Ms. Rachel Lucas!…but then again what does a belly scratchin dumb ass like me know?
Do you think we are heading towards a future where those of us who don’t like electin us some more celebrities verses some plain folk like us ( you know plain folks like those there idiots that founded this country) will one day be denied the right to vote?
I hope not cus then we retards would have no one to look out for us in up over there in warshington?
Gah-ahh-ahh-leh!
Ah only haid to uze the dickshunary a dozen tahms, and Ah dint even nayd a dimmikrat!
Awl Ah cun say is dat we ain’t werthy.
Biden quote from above.:
Now I AM confused. I thought Obama and Biden were the ones one telling us that he is different, i.e., not “more of the same”.
I have yet to read on Rachel’s blog, or Ace, etc., “all this stuff about how different Barack Obama is”. My recollection is that the theme has been that he isn’t any different than all of the other socialists that have come before.
Conversely, it has been Barack who has has told me that “they’re goin say … uh.. er.. he’s different…”. But I haven’t read that on this or the other blog I regularly read.
No, Mr. Seitzman, we have a difference in worldview. The way you feel about the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is the way I feel about the Democrat Presidential candidate. Both assessments are quite logical if you understand that each starts with a very different assumption on the nature of humans. But you don’t, and that is why you have contempt for those who do not see things as you do.
“I have been that close, many times; I have hung out with the Smart People and listened to them talk. I’ve heard them jeer at patriotism, mock the military, sneer at ordinary Americans who shop in malls and watch television. Their contempt for the Stupid People is so thick and deep that if the target of this hatred were members of a minority group, we’d know them for the bigots they are.”
— Orson Scott Card
Well, time to head home and take care of my younglings, which I manage to do very well without government assistance, except for the youngest. Take care, everyone!
Rachel, you freaking rock. That last paragraph is sheer comedy gold.
Fer those wantin’ mor pikchures of Clem an Eb, I got a famly tree book to sell. i’m havin trubble fittin it in my bookcase cuz its so long and skinny.
Brooke,
Thanks for actually addressing my post in a manner inconsistent with every liberal I have ever met. You rock (in your own crazy mixed up way.)
Anyway…..
Let’s look at the thing said:
Guns- Yes, it is well known that in the race to take guns away, it is always , always , always liberals who lead the charge:
Says Barack Obama:
Faith:
I personally have no “faith” , as an Agnostic, but I respect those who do. You will never see a conservative, Republican, or Libertatian sue a local muncipality to take down the Christmas tree from the lawn of the town hall, or remove the ten commandments from a court house. Liberals do that, only Liberals do that, and it’s an attack on faith.
Money:
Obama has said that he plans to raise taxes on families making over 250 k per year, and eliminate the taxes of those making 40k per year or less. That’s called redistribuition of wealth.
This may come as a shock, but most people work for small businesses in America ( less than 100 employees, less than 20 million per year revenue.) Most of those business owners started those companies from scratch, they incidentally employ most Americans, and those owners often make 250-400k per year. These people, the people who create jobs, will be punished for their success, and their money will be given to the lazy. Mostly liberals, of course, certainly mostly Obama voters.
With this plan, Obama is essentially buying votes from the poor.
Humor:
Leading the charge for political correctness is again, the Liberals. God forbid anyone make a joke that acknowledges that we aren’t all of the same color/faith/gender/nationality/ or physical stature, the Liberal led ACLU will sue the shit out of anyone deemed “insensitive”.
Liberals are sucking the humor right out of American life. As it stands now, the only stupid people that can be portrayed on TV without a lawsuit is fat white men. Check out every sitcom, the protaginist is a stupid white fat guy who thanks goodness has an unusually hot wife that is there to keep him alive because he’s so inept and can’t even tie his own shoes.Make that protagonist an Hispanic or Black woman acting like a complete moron and watch how fast the complaints roll in. The only homor allowed is at the expense of white males.
THAT’S what I’m talking about .
But I wuv my widdums democrats.
They keep me safe … and clean …
Well, since the ones on the ‘right’ are the ‘wrong’ ones, I’m willing to bet he thinks the ‘correct’ ones are the only ones ‘left’.
Oh my!! Only the Democrats know what is best for me!! I cannot think for myself; the democrats have to do it for me!!
Sarcasm off.
The day these idiots take over my life is the day they step over my dead body and a large pile of expended rifle brass.
Yep stylinjulie, that’s the Herbinator. He’s a dog that has adjusted well to the comforts of middle class life after a rough start.
Just a little wiggly worm then. He was looking at me and bonding, or that seemed obvious to me, and deciding I was his new daddy.
He was a shelter dog adopted from petfinders.com. Lady in Angleton had fostered him, he’d been dumped near there in a ditch near a pound because they charge you $40 to drop off a dog and some people just take them away and dump them instead of paying. He’s have beagle half basset according to the vet.
He’s the best dog I ever had in my inbred, bible clingin’, gun totin’, cousin humpin’ ignorant sub-moron wrong-way votin’ life.
I’m guessing Brooke is actually part of the quieter majority of liberal types. Much like you constantly hear about the Rev Phelps types representing the right view, all too often the vocal minority of the left such as HuffPo, Kos, etc don’t actually represent the vast majority of people.
Since I’m nowhere near as elequent as Vanderleun, I’ll just post a link to his summary of the . Had McCain gone with someone like we expected, aka Lieberman or Grahmm, I’d have expected the same self-destructive results for the Rebublican party.
Anyway.. back to Brooke’s comments: I agree education is important, but over the last couple of decades, it’s changed from education to indoctrination. The American education system is broken and without a major overhaul the US will not be able to compete.
Regarding Medicare\Medicaid, it’s again a case of the “safety net” becoming the defacto standard. But don’t worry, once “Universal Healthcare” is implemented, we can follow the Euro\Canadian route and just stop treating people that are no longer cost effective. If that doesn’t scare you out of supporting government run healthcare, I don’t know what will.
Para,
Great points. And of course I have some responses.
Guns – I disagree with Barack Obama on the D.C. gun ban, but not because I’m oh-so pro 2nd Amendment – it’s because I felt it was one more way for people who live in DC to be treated like second class citizens in their own country. Do I think he will take all guns? No. Will that partly be because of the NRA doing its job? Yes. And also because I think it just won’t happen. Is it naieve of me? Perhaps, but I think it’s one of those Mt. Everests of issues – hard to climb and you’ll turn blue in the face in the process. I don’t claim to represent every liberal when it comes to guns – but believe me, I come from a blue, liberal family that owns guns. It’s not as cut and dry as the media, or even Barack Obama wants us to believe.
Faith – I sometimes wonder if we’ve taken a good thing too far….I believe in separation of church and state, but not to the point where you can’t put up a Christmas tree, nor do I even give a crap about the Ten Commandments (decent rules in general, don’t you think?). But on the flip side, I sometimes feel that people endeavor to lay their faith on my in certain issues, namely those regarding reproductive rights and civil unions. A lot of people use their faith as a reason to interfere in peoples’ lives. So it cuts both ways, not that you agree with either one. I know this really doesn’t answer the question/situation – I think it simply elaborates that we have a lot of work to do to find more common ground.
Money – You made some great points that I want to think about before I respond to, ok?
Humor – First off, I’m a Bill Maher fan – and he operates under the premise to insult everyone equally. ;-) I don’t buy into the notion of PC humor either, and I agree that the PC police was led by liberals. There, you got me. But just so you know, I personally do not wish to rob you of your humor. Or curling rights. Which, we all know you really need humor to appreciate curling….
Now just wait a minute. How does Obama count as “highly educated?” He went to Occidental College in LA for two years and then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
He then went to a trade school (Harvard Law School) where he learned to be a lawyer.
He has refused to release his college records so we have no idea how many real courses he took. You can bet that he never studied anything about “dead white men” nor read anything written by a “dead white man”
Come on now, Sam. If he went to HLS, he took a class on contracts, torts, criminal law, etc. Mandatory, I’m pretty sure. And within that, he has to have studied the Constitution, as he did teach about it. And last I knew, Thomas Jefferson was a dead white man. ;-)
I read the wrong blogs too. Hopefully the Obama Administration will provide me with free re-education.
“Now they get confused sometimes. You know, they listen to the wrong talk radio shows or watch the wrong TV networks, um,”
and just WHO died and left this jackoff in charge?
This whole subject reminded me of a .
As my good friend felicity is fond of saying, there’s always a song.
wow, just wow
some people are a complete waste of oxygen
Darury, I don’t know if I’m a member of the quiet majority of liberals – my spouse, family and office probably disagree. I’m vocal – I just don’t write for the Huffington Post – probably because I don’t want to get bogged down by sensational crap. (I admit, my fave article today on the HuffPo is how Palin got a makeover. Because this should anger me? Good for her!)
I think I just try to look at things logically. “X and Y aren’t working? Ok, how do we get them to work?” “Ok, so we don’t agree on 95% of the issue – then let’s work on the 5% that we do and make THAT work and go from there.” There’s all this talk about reaching across the aisle but it’s really a load of crap, in my opinion. It reduces people to an ass or an elephant and that’s just stupid.
So you cited education. We both agree that education isn’t working. What IS working? What can we build on? What do you feel is the number one problem with current education? Let’s compare lists. Have any solutions? Cool. Lets’ talk about it. Will we agree on everything? No. And that’s ok too.
I know it sounds incredibly touchy feely to say, “Let’s work together” – but how has screaming at each other worked out so far?
and just WHO died and left this jackoff in charge?
Nobody. Just as no one died and left Ann Coulter in charge. ;-)
Why are we supposed to believe Obama is smart? Because the media is telling us so! I call BS!! This is a man who is even using teleprompters at informal “town hall meetings” because every time he tries to go extemporaneous (wow, five dollar word, I must be a Democrat, huh?) he trips over his own tongue. Not only is he a total puppet, his strings are finally starting to show.
Um….shoes? Huh? I like ice cream!!
Rachel, your posts are always entertaining and put a smile on my face. Having said that, it has not been since you bashed the ever lovin’ hell out of Michael Moore in your past blog life that I have laughed this hard reading a post you’ve written.
The second to last paragraph had me in stitches…especially the booger part.
envybuns: And your Obama Voter/McCain Voter demotivator was the icing on the cake. Brilliant.
I wanted to let you all know, I’m having a political debate with someone on facebook and I have stolen some of your very well written comments! I hope that is okay! (The guy, a liberal, has bashed me and said he hopes a plane flies up my ass…among other things about how I was only tolerable when I was a fetus. Gotta love those super-nice Democrats!)
I heard these bullshit arguments of the left about Americans not knowing what is good for them back in 1970 at the University of California. It bites now as much as it did then. I don’t need the condescension, esp. from people who want to take away my guns and tell me what to think and how to act. If I don’t I will be prosecuted.
No thanks. I gave up my Nat’l Org. for Women card in 1978 when their mgmt said that a woman didn’t need a man or marriage to have a baby. All she needed was sperm. Seems like the feministas of those days suddenly went ghetto kid on us. You know, ask a ghetto kid where milk comes from and he’ll tell you from a milk carton you get at the grocery store.
Yeah, that’s right. And, all sperm comes from the sperm bank. Freeze dried.
I haven’t even STARTED on the postmodernists and marxists, yet. I’ll save that for later!
Who cares about smarts. Obama is going to raise taxes on income over 250K. That fact by itself will swing the election.
Dave W:
The Herbinator makes me smile every time I see him. What a cutie! Please give him noogies on the head for me. Thanks.
Hep us Bari-Wan Obami… yur r onlienst hope…
Tracey, please tell your liberal “friend” on Facebook to grow up, endeavor to live some of the values that his party likes to spout, and see me if he can’t. Or come here, where he’ll learn to post with some actual thought and respect.
I wish to nominate the above comment from wRitErsbLock for a Gusset Award.
duz eny1 no wear i kin git a coppee uv raychl lukis 4 dummeez? i dun losted meye democrat
Past that, I’m laughing too hard to say much useful.
News for liberals, Obama will not release his college transcipts and it isn’t because he wants to spare our feelings by his spectacular intelligence.
Its because its hard to claim to be the most brilliant human evah if you have a bunch of Ds and C+ in any course requiring ability. I am willing to bet that Obama failed a bunch of business and science courses but excelled in the gender and ethnic studies classes.
There is a bet put out by one of his classmates who doesn’t remember Obama even though they were in the same major and year, that his person has better grades than the “Messiah”. Of course smoking the pot, etc will drive your grades to hell.
Holy Crap on a Pancake! I suppose I’m not smart enough to plagiarize from a cartoon for a campaign speech or a Tory Brit (Obama and Biden respectively). Well, I guess I’ll just suffer through writing my own stuff and taking credit for the good and the bad like the inbred, sterno drinking moron I am. Asshats.
Brooke,
With regards to education, the leftist establishment is running the show in the public school sector. You might want to talk to those people first and ask them why it’s more important to spew leftist dogma than teach kids the basics.
The reason why I state this is that I went through the nonsense in education school back in the 90’s (was still fairly liberal then) and I was horrified how my university program picked students for their ideology over those who actually knew the subject (in this case social studies).
For example, one of my classmates called me one evening to ask me where the Ohio River was on the map. Sarcastically I replied that I would try looking around the state of Ohio on the map.
I made the mistake of asking in class how one raises test standards by lowering test scores (NYS Regents tests went from a 65 to a 55 in order to pass at the time, absolutely brilliant…). The professors didn’t like the questions that I asked (plus some other goodies) and essentially drove me out of the program. Needless to say, the other girl (and other clueless people who knew not one iota of history or geography) graduated. I can’t make this stuff up.
Sorry, but I don’t think there’s much of anything that either side can work together on at this point. Your party is slowly but surely being taken over by the far left and they want to implement no less than a socialist state. And this is only the beginning…
This whole election season is giving me Aldous Huxley flashbacks. Remember ‘Brave New World’? Now, replace ‘alpha’ with ‘democrat’ when you read, and you’ll get something like this: “Oh, I’m glad I’m not an Alpha! They work SO hard at things I just can’t understand. I’m SO glad I’m a Beta!
later on…..”Roof? Roof! Oh, roof!” said the Upsilon Semi-minus, blinking in the sunshine.
Unfortunately for democrats, the balance of the populace has not been bred for compliance. We get rather fed up with self-important elitists who insist on ignoring history. (Of course, by ‘history’, I mean what ACTUALLY happened, not what they wish happened.) If the current crop of what passes for liberal leadership worked for White Star Lines 96 years ago, the only discussion on the bridge of the Titanic would have been on how fast to drive the boat into the iceberg.
There’s nothing wrong with this in principle. The problem is that most liberals naturally assume that bigger government is the answer.
Gun violence on the rise? Get the government to ban handguns/tighten already onerous gun regulations.
Minorities and women underrepresented in high-paying corporate jobs? Write up a set of racial/gender quotas that businesses will be required to adhere to under pain of prosecution.
Government not taking in enough revenue? Raise taxes on “the rich”.
This is not how America is supposed to work.
I see you managed to get a snap of a couple of the Kos Kids.
RW Donn, what do you really think?
I’m the Original Liberal.
I want everyone to have more than they need so there’ll be plenty to share with me and my Dogz when we come to your spread.
Just write me in on the ballot.
“Vote for me. I’m not running for anything.”
(Have you ever tried running in sandals and a robe)?
Dave W, give the Herbinator a kiss on his velvety little muzzle from me. Okay, I’m gonna go cuddle Chip the Wonder Dog now.
Why is it that the party most suffused with elitism and expertosis still calls itself the party of the little guy and the working folks?
Keep it up, y’all. You could never understand why Bush won in 2004, so you’ll never be able to grasp the fact that if McCain and Palin win this year, it’ll be in part because you helped make it happen. Please, do carry on.
I’m OK with an IQ test for voting.
I doubt me self-proclaimed intellectual superior at the Huffington Post is. Why would that be?
I don’t know or care what the actual number is, but based on my class rank in High School and College and SAT and Armed Forces test scores, I think I’ll qualify.
Even if the cutoff is the 99th percentile.
All my IQ of 145 ever got me was a job as a CNC programmer/machinist, my own home (paid for) a car and a pickup (both paid for).
HELP ME OBAMA I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING WRONG!!!!!11!!1!1!!!111!!!ONE!!!!!!!!
Holy Crap! Between the original post and the comments I literally have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
I don’t claim to be super smart. In fact I have no idea what my IQ is … but I’m guessing it wouldn’t be all that high. I do like to think of myself as logical and able to make decisions not based on emotional reaction. Though not always.
Do these people really think like this? It almost seems like a parody it’s so outrageous.
Well, I don’t know why, at least at less-than-novella length, but Best of the Web has had some interesting insights on the “cognitive elite” over the the last few years. especially the “money quote” from Democratic Underground.
And the money quote from the second one handy is this (emphasis mine):
Amen.
For wife and self and siblings, four out of seven were National Merit Scholars. I won’t total up degrees, because I’d run out of fingers and toes trying, but obviously we’re too damn dumb to tie our own shoes.
SNL. Ackroid. Curtain. Newman. Coneheads.
Salon-style hair dryer is introduced.
MEHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHHEEEEEHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Jumping though window.
Am I being to harsh on those who are on the “loyal” left?
You know, there used to be a pro-2nd Amendment website that had a really cool video examining that very question. Sadly the site went under years ago, but I’ll try to recall it from memory.
*ahem*
Popular stereotype (promoted by Democrats):
“Republicans are the party of the rich. Democrats are the party of the poor and the downtrodden.”
Elections are won by getting as many people to vote for you as possible.
If the Republican Party is the “party of the rich” they would have to implement policies designed to allow as many people as possible become, and stay, rich.
So what do the Democrats have to do?
Regarding your post, I was thinking oh look BEER!
N. O\’Brain: Is this your son’s first deployment? The Marine Corps has recently reconfigured their family readiness programs to include parents. Previously the Key Volunteer Network was exclusively for spouses and parents had to rely on informal networks to get unit information. Although I have not been active in the network for a while (we were at an Air Force base in Texas for the past three years) I will have to be active once again since my husband is leaving in January for 4-12 months. A good link for information for extended family member is:
If you should happen to need anything about info or how to get to the ‘right’ person, please let me know. I’m right up the road from Lejeune.
Semper Fi and God Speed to your son and the Marines in 3/8.
Slightly OT, but I nearly choked to death when I went to this page from a link over at Misha’s place:
Put your drinks down before clicking that link! You have been warned!
Miss Lukis – you shure ur smirt! I only wish ur posts warnt so long – I can only read so long befur I gots to find another booger.
Got my Maverick/Sarahcuda ’08 bumper stickers in the mail today. WOOOO HOOOOO!! I feel like I’m holding a case of dynamite that I procured illegally. Why? I’m in Los F@$%^@king Angelexico!! If I put one of these on my car out here, I can basically kiss my car’s finish (and maybe tires) goodbye. But the joy I will get soliciting dirty looks, middle fingers, and possibly gunfire is too good to pass up. What could be more offensive? Let’s see, I could steal Barbara Streisand’s Prius, replace the engine with a 426 Hemi, drive it onto the field at the Coliseum, and hit the USC Trojan with a baby seal I was using for a hood ornament. For the Coup de Gras, I could erect an oil derrick on the 50-yard-line. Wait, I better pace myself. Let the fun begin!
Tee hee
The ad banner on top is for Sprout, the 24-hour preschool channel!
How apropreeut fur us ijits!
So, I’m only your typical 137 IQ college graduate in history with a teaching certificate, who only taught one year before pursuing a career in retail sales. I’m hardly the brightest crayon in the box.
But I recall the classic line from “Forrest Gump.” “I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
I may not be a smart man, but I know what right is.
Forcing me to give up a significant portion of my income to support people who won’t get off their own fat asses and work and instead choose to have more children in order to take more of my money, is not right.
Forcing me to pay for the mistakes of others who took on risky loans, when I rent my home, thereby causing them to default on said loans, so that they flood the rental market and drive up the cost of MY rent, is not right.
Projecting to the rest of the world the notion that our country lacks the will to fight those who would destroy our way of life, in the name of peace, when peace to the enemy means their killing us, is not right.
Buying 70% of our oil from foreign countries when that entire shortfall could be erased by domestic sources if we just lifted a few congressional bans, is not right.
Using every manner of smear tactic known to man in order to disgrace a career mom who manages to balance family and job gracefully, while dismantling the status quo and getting corrupt officials dismissed, all for political purposes, is not right.
I may not be as smart as the Obamessiah, but I bet I’ve experienced more in my life than he has. I also bet any amount of money that I’ve had a more “diverse” life than his, having worked alongside Americans of every stripe in the retail industry. I know what real Americans are. I know what they want. I know that they want the government to get out of the way and let us LIVE.
Don’t worry, otcconan; my IQ is only in the 130s too, and I’m not even American (yet), but even I know how many states there are in the US, for example.
And I can even hold a conversation without having a mobile teleprompter at hand. There’s still hope for us right-leaning retards, yet!
Tully:
Good link. Thanks!
mightysamurai:
I think you’re onto something. Democrats love the poor so much that they just have to create more of them.
You, sir, have great, big, brass ones.
Oh, and about damn time I bring this up after only 160 comments or so:
Rachel, magnificent work. This post is right up there with your best.
But those hillbilly brothers creep me the hell out.
So …. are you trying to tell us that your personal big D is Rupert, Margaret of Sunny? Or did you hire your bad self an illegal immigrant poo-flinger to handle your dirty work? ‘Cuz I’m personally DYING to know who you have duly appointed as your resident simian assistant for these most basic tasks …
Oh, and rest assured, with my finger firmly ensconced in my nose, neither will be booger-laden for long. Single-handed keyboarding is, after all, one of the most basic fundamental tenets of intertubal functionality, is it not?
Besides, I’m starving, and a little finger food would really hit the spot.
shucks.
i knew them hollywood types really are smarter and we should let ’em make all our decisions for us, you know?
like men marrying men, there’s a good ‘un!
or bein’ real nice to terrorists, yup, makes sense!
or electing people who are shor nuf corrupt and inept at the same time, yessir, that takes some skill, don’t it?
i mean, how can you be corrupt and inept at the same time?
or, yeah, how bout not drillin fer oil so we still at the mercy of them terrorists? su-perb idea, wish i’d-a thought of it my own self.
dang i don’t know why it took me so long, guess i is just confused and stupid.
Do you know how much time I have wasted this afternoon sending that photo around the place with captions like, ‘Blah de Blah’s brothers popped into the office’, ‘Got any single friends?’ and ‘Like the new dating website I have been on,? If you were me, which one would you date?’
It’s lucky I am self employed, otherwise I would fire myself.
Huck wrote:
The same sort of idiots who did stupid things because “all the cool kids” were doing it.
Heh. I was one of those weirdos who thought that if the cool kids were doing it, that was reason enough right there to suspect it might not be a good idea.
Obama’s IQ probably works out to around 116, based on the average Harvard LSAT score less the average affirmative action bonus given black students at elite universities. Obviously, averages don’t necessarily apply to individuals, but this is a reasonable estimate based on the available information.
One can if one likes.
Well, that explains the boogers on my mouse.
Onlt if you eat his brain.
Well, I couldn’t finish the article because my sister just walked by wearing that outfit she knows I like. BBIB!!!!
Brooke,
Thanks again, I’m starting to like you, despite your political affilitation.
Guns:
I cannot agree on imposing any more gun restrictions on mentally stable, non convicts.
As it turns out, law abiding citizens don’t break existing gun laws, but since gun crime continues, legislators see fit to keep imposing new gun laws. Those laws, incidentally are ignored by the criminals, just like the previous laws.
Gun laws do not stop gun crime, they simply restrict otherwise law abiding citizens from protecting themselves, enjoying the shooting sports, and from exercising their 2nd ammendment rights. Criminals ignore the laws anyway, so you cannot impose a law on someone who is determined to ignore it.
Your Liberals brothers and sisters don’t seem to understand this so I cannot vote for them.
Religon:
I agree that sometimes it seems that religon is being “forced upon us” , but as with most things, a litte perspective is in order. Sometimes I find myself becoming a little hyper-sensitive to al things religous. I see a “God loves you” sticker on the window of my dry cleaner and I sometimes think; “Why do these Christians keep throwing their religon in my face?”
In reality, all that was imposed upon me was a kind gesture. It didnt’ hurt me a bit, and to tell the truth, sometimes it’s nice to know that there are nice religous Christians out there who I can count on never wanting to cause me harm.
Liberals see any evidence of a religon as an attack on their sovereign right to be atheist. They cannot fathom a world where atheist sand religous people can co-exist.
Barack Obama says he has gone to church his whole life, in his early life is was a Mosque, later, Rev Wright’s church, where an outright hatred for America and white people was preached very often. I feel like Obama was a member of a church that was more cult-like than the little Methodist church down the road from my house. Obama’s religon represents the worst part of religon, a seperation of people along religious lines. Very very bad.
Sports:
( I missed this one earlier)
In nearly every city in the US, there is a youth soccer or baseball league. The trend, started by liberals, is to no longer recognize winners and losers. Every little snot-nosed brat get s a 1st place trophy.This has gone on for about a decade now, and it is part of the great wimpification of our younger generation. Our young people are weak, lazy, and stupid. Competetive sport woudl rectify most of that, but Liberals find “unfairness” in the world of compettition. That is bad.
Humor-
I hate Bill Maher. He desguises vitriol as humor. He’s just a mean and nasty person. John Stewart is a liberal comedian, so is Colbert, but they are funny, not mean. Big difference. Mean and funny do not mix.
That was so great I just had to hit your tip jar. Not even sure how I managed to navigate the internets to do it but I managed somehow. Keep up the good work.
Brooke,
although I see we don’t necessarily agree on humour either (Bill Maher does not insult everyone equally, he concentrates his bile on the right.) … let’s concentrate on the real liberal beliefs you have.
Education is NOT the responsibility of government.
The “government” only cares about making sure you8’re a “good citizen” — pay your taxes and keep government stooges employed. It is the PARENTS duty to make sure the child is educated and becomes independant of the parents. And hopefully productive enough to repay the parent by looking after said parent in their dotage.
Medicaid and Medicare. Tell me how these differ from any other form of welfare. Why is a healthy young person working the deep fryer at a McDonalds in Tucumcari responsible for the Viagara and Depends for a senior living in an extended care facility in Chicago? As a actual living and breathing (ok, mouth breathing) conservative, I haven’t dumped my elders onto the state to care for when they got too old and infirm to look after themselves, I’ve done that myself.
From your description, liberalism means letting (forcing) other people pay for things that are your responsibility. Which does make you a pretty normal liberal, and shows that little, if anything, has changed in the liberal midset in many generations.
Oh, and Ann Coulter isn’t interested in restricting leftwingnutjob media … she actually MEEDS it in order to have adversaries to insult. So she believes in freedom of speech for everyone, not just people who agree with her.
“With regards to education, the leftist establishment is running the show in the public school sector. You might want to talk to those people first and ask them why it’s more important to spew leftist dogma than teach kids the basics. ”
because then they might not be as receptive to leftist brainwashing?
My goodness … just when I thought it was impossible to think lower of leftist thugs …. now they’re hacking Palin’s email and posting contents? Damn! I hope this time, unlike all the other times liberals have run amok — bombing campaign offices, slashing tires and the like … that there are some actual prosecutions and some SERIOUS jail time.
Well… maybe ize ignerunt, an maybe ize only got threw the thurd grad, but i knows what i likes, an i kin reed gud enuf to nowe who ize gonna bin votin fer in the lectunze.
ya dont gotta be a rocket surjun to no the diferanse tween o fer obama an a m fer mccain. ize lerned enuf to fix a feed truk, smart enuf to keep runnin my daddys bidness, an i kin hunt gude enuf to feed my family, an i respekts my GOD.
an ize skuled rightly enuf to vote fer mccain.
yawns widely, scratches belly Ah, another wonderful day in Paradise. Now watch some Democrat s.o.b. come along and eff it up.
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I defense of hillbillies I would like to clue the rest of the nation in on something. They’re not all like that. I am the 4th generation descendant of hillbillies and my hill-dwelling relatives look on us as the poor relations. Nearly all of them make 6 figures a year–doing what I don’t know. They have many more toys and much nicer houses than ours. I’ve only met them at family reunions over the past 10 years.
This brings us to what I call The Fundamental Contradiction of the Democratic Nanny State:
By her own admission, she is not competent to run her own life. How is the then competent to run everyone’s life, by either directly voting on referenda or electing representatives to make the laws?
Did you at least tell her she shouldn’t vote until she grows up?
“I had a girlfriend once who tried that on me. She argued that she wasn’t smart enough to run her own life (unlike me) and that government was just like childproofing a house, and adults like me just had to deal with it.”
then she needs to leave voting to the adults.She obviously is’nt responsible enough to be trusted with a ballot
“My goodness … just when I thought it was impossible to think lower of leftist thugs …. now they’re hacking Palin’s email and posting contents? Damn! I hope this time, unlike all the other times liberals have run amok — bombing campaign offices, slashing tires and the like … that there are some actual prosecutions and some SERIOUS jail time.”
don’t hold yer breath waiting for it
“Well, that explains the boogers on my mouse.”
obviously,we need MUCH stricter booger control laws
That is one high-larious post.
Brilliant political commentary. Very well done!
I can SO keep my fingur in my nose and work the cumputur box. My democrat frend showd me I has 2 of them hand things–an he sez I got lotsa fingurs.
so there! whose the moreon now?
But I really gotta say, the ‘money quote here–
the one that illustrates the point so well, is this–
The Democratic “base,” it seems, can be found at the extreme edges of the bell curve, consisting of a small number of uneducated voters and a large number of overeducated ones.
I do find it EXCEEDINGLY humorous that anyone would not understand that both edges of a bell curve would have the same number of people.
Doesn’t anybody remember Linus’ immortal words (From “You’re a good man, Charlie Brown”, I think):
“I love Mankind. It’s PEOPLE I can’t stand!”
Pontotoc Bill: Thank you for your service. It takes a special person to volunteer as “bait” for SAMs – even if you can shoot back. YMBSM!
First off, in no way am I a Barack supporter nor would I really want to support the mockery the republican party has made in the past several years, to the point I would rather live somewhere else.
However, I do have to agree many America’s do not know what is good for them. I mean, everyone is literally out of their minds if they think that there is no truth to the point Barack made.
Everyone (or should) knows most all media sources are biased. Have people forgotten that most people in America don’t really show that much interest in politics? Otherwise maybe they would be a human being and read as much information as they could about what’s going on. People take everything for face value until they have something else to dispute it. It takes away from having real facts, from different sources that you can form your own conclusions. I mean, I consider myself independent. Mainly because I think that’s what being human is all about. I’m not going to just say, ok I actually agree with EVERYTHING one side says, doesn’t that seem a little unnatural? If you don’t agree-that’s fine. I’m actually not that ignorant to understand people value their owns opinions and may not side with mine. At least where I stand, I can see the faults in both sides. Or instead I can play dumb and pretend the Republian party has seriously done an outstanding job bringing our country into a depression. Sorry, I just can’t bring myself to say I support Bush.
Barack actually isn’t as dumb as you may think. He’s actually rather smart, possibly smarter than most people who comment and have to post their IQ’s like the rest of the world cares (seriously, we don’t know you and I frankly couldn’t give a shit about your most likely fabricated IQ score. Are people that unbelieveably desperate to tell a bunch of strangers how smart they think they are?)
Lastly, the relgious thing. Do not get me started. People do (as Barack famously stated) cling to their religion. I don’t need a book written hudreds of years ago, telling me what constitutes being a “good person”. If anyone actually opened their eyes, maybe you would see that everyone is actually saying the same thing. We all pretty much believe in universal faith. This understanding that there is something bigger than us, that maybe humans have not yet fully understood or may never understand. How can you believe something that contradicts itself and causes more bad than good. I have to make the point I think it’s actually really sad people live their lives by certain guidelines in a book that can very easily be misinterpreted. Hence why Martin Luther clearly opened a can of worms by suggesting the bible be written for everyone to read. Instead of being told what the bible means by the papacy, morons of the world were able to take a single line and make it mean 50 different things.
No I will not be voting for Barack, thank you very much.
EDIT: Oh shit. Rachel just wrote an entire post about this at 10:04 a.m. … oops!
Great minds, and all that.
Dear Christ above, could the left sink any lower? Hacking someone’s email account is really not anything new and inventive. From what I saw on Hannity and Douchebag last night her emails weren’t anything for the libs to get their panties in a wad over anyway.
I am SICK of hearing from the left about how awful anyone on the right is, how stupid we all are, how much we need them to hold our hands and bring us to “the light”. I don’t need to have my soul “saved” by your so called Messiah. I’ve got a Messiah that has already saved my soul, thank you.
I say the left can kiss my college educated,conservative, religion clinging, gun toting, McCain/Palin supporting, rational-minded ass!
You lefties want to know what the difference between this conservative and a pitbull is? Not a god damn thing, because I don’t wear lipstick.
I’m fed up with all the attention the media had paid all of these so called scandals. Shouldn’t we be focusing on the issues, like I don’t know, the economy, energy, the housing market, etc? Instead the media wants to focus on “Troopergate” (which is a load of crap. Look at who is doing the investigation), lipstick remarks, and whether or not SNL is sexist (I saw the skit and laughed my ass off).
I think the media is still nursing their wounds over the fact that someone had the balls to call them out on their bullshit reporting. Yeah, you guys are biased. Put your big boy undies on and deal with it!
I pray to God that McCain and Palin win this election. Not just because I think they happen to be better qualified, but because it will put the left into a tissy the likes of which we’ve never seen. Maybe I’ll get to see a few heads explode.
I Brooke.
I wish people like her were in charge of the Democratic party. (And the media. And the education establishment. And the federal bureaucracy.)
The sad truth is, they’re not.
There’s supposed to be a (heart) between “I” and “Brooke”. Guess my HTML-fu isn’t what it should be.
“but because it will put the left into a tissy the likes of which we’ve never seen. Maybe I’ll get to see a few heads explode.”
these piece of shit lefties will be pissing and moaning for the NEXT eight years,just like the last.I’m hoping for a rash of suicides among them
This is what I get for stepping away from my computer for more than 10 minutes…tons to respond to.
First off, to Mat who said:
Sorry, but I don’t think there’s much of anything that either side can work together on at this point.
Ok Mat, this is not meant as a slam, but WRONG ANSWER. If anything, you and I can work together in acknowledging that people should know where the Ohio River is. ;-) That’s the point I was trying to make. We don’t agree on 95% of the issues? Let’s work on the 5% together. Maybe when we’re done, we’ll have more ideas as to how to work on the next 4%, and so on and so forth. And for the record, I am somewhat horrified that you had the experience in college that you did.
Mighty Samurai said:
There’s nothing wrong with this in principle. The problem is that most liberals naturally assume that bigger government is the answer.
I agree that does seem to be the consensus, doesn’t it? I will say that I really don’t want bigger government – I want SMARTER government, a goal that all of us can probably agree on.
otcconan said:
Forcing me to give up a significant portion of my income to support people who won’t get off their own fat asses and work and instead choose to have more children in order to take more of my money, is not right.
Agreed – up to a point. I’ve already said that I don’t believe in a welfare perpetuity – I love the concept of welfare to work – of which I am somewhat a product of, as my mother was on assistance after my brother was born and her marriage ended. It allowed her to get on her feet and start to build an independent life. She now owns her own home and has been at the same job for almost 20 years. To me, she is a shining example of what it SHOULD be, not what it is. Like I said – you can eat a few meals for free – then you’re expected to start helping around the house.
Pete in Midland said…well, he said a lot of things and I want to respond to my homestate brother.
You are right. Education is the responsibility of the parents. But we use schools as a mass way of educating our youth….I don’t think you’re advocating for homeschooling, so I’m not really sure where you are going with your statement. How would you propose paying for schools without some sort of taxation? Keep in mind, I’m not asking flippantly, more for clarification.
As to your statement on medicare and medicaid, I will admit that I winced a lot when I read that, as I do have two grandparents on medicare. I’m sure a lot of us have older relatives on that program. I understand your frustration about making people give up some of their money to pay for someone else, and you know, I wish I made enough to be able to support my grandparents to take that burden off the American people. Heck, if I could cover my grandparents with my health insurance, I gladly would. Maybe that’s an idea that would work. But as I’ve said above, my grandparents planned their retirement with an assurance that there would be insurance for them from my grandfather’s employer and the employer reneged on that. What would you propose they do? What if they didn’t have kids or people to care for them? They take a fair bit of medication – not one Viagra (well, I don’t know that, and to be honest, I sure as HELL am not asking) or Depends between them – meds to treat actual physical conditions beyond ED. As I said before, I believe we are measured in how we care for our young and old – so I’m willing to pay for Medicare.
BTW Rachel, in that picture you posted in the article. Which one is Obama and which is Biden?
Does anyone remember the collective outrage of the Left when, during the 2004 election cycle, a Republican aide looked on an unsecured server and pulled up a document from (I think) Rockefeller outlining a strategy for making Bush look bad? Since Palin’s Yahoo account was private email, they should be asking to have this guy fed to the wolves, right?
Yeah. Right.
Para, you get a response all your own, as I very much appreciate the dialogue.
Guns – Agreed. On all points. Seriously. I will admit that someone here said they had 600 guns and I somewhat winced – not because of the guns, but more because I’m anti-clutter. 600 of anything weirds me out. ;-)
Sports – Agreed. Again, on all points. And what’s funny is that while those rules may be in place, I think the kids still know if they lost. I think blowing up scores is an awful way to teach any sort of value to a child, because if a kid sucks, they know they suck. I was (and still am) a fat kid and I sucked at sports. Do I feel I was traumatized by “losing”? No. So I totally hear you there.
Religion – I agree with you on perspective, 100% I always choose to think that when someone says “God Bless You” they actually care about me and want me to do well rather than “Heathen, come to my beliefs or risk the fiery pits of hell!!”
And believe me, I get the whole liberal/atheist thing – talk about a bunch of people that need to sit down and STFU. I participate on another board where the debate on God is a regular occurrance, and their is a pompous atheist there who I really want to take a 2X4 to. Very christian of me, no?
But please don’t think that all liberals are like that, because we’re not. It’s like anything – there’s always some ass making the rest of us look bad.
As to Barack Obama and the church he attended…I had this long-winded answer and I realized that in the end, we agree on a lot of it. Some of the sermons pretty much took the Christ out of Christianity. I try to look at it from their perspectives and realize I have no point of reference. But I do know that hatred of anything and condemnation of anything never really changed anything. So while I get pissed off a lot, I try to channel that anger to actually doing something productive – too bad Rev. Wright doesn’t let me preach to him.
As to Bill Maher…I get why you don’t like him. Tastes will differ. And we are very much in agreement on Colbert and Stewart.
This is SUPERB mockery and satire, Racl Lukis. I am laughing so hard I can’t tipe gud. Awesome…
A new low:
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This kind of sleaze was right up Gawker’s alley and they ran with it. They called Bristol Palin’s illegally obtained cell number, recorded her voicemail response, and put it on the website. They reprinted her husband’s and son’s email addresses along with many others. And they posted private family pictures of the Palins. Every screenshot taken by the hacker and gleefully passed around by his friends in Anonymous was published by Gawker.
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Will law enforcement take this federal felony seriously?
Does this show how desperate the Washington insiders are to keep out a true outside-the-beltway reformer like Palin? What other sleaze will she expose once she gets to DC?
Wayne B:
I think who did the hacking should be feed to the wolves with a bit of barbecue sauce. I figure they’ll scarf down rotten meat a bit faster and more willingly if there is some flavor to it.
I’m sorry, Ms Lucas. You’ll have to omit the Gs from the ends of gerunds before I’ll be able to understand you, like e.g. showin’ and readin’–you know, just like the Washington Post does when transcribing Governor Palin’s speeches.
BTW, what does “e.g.” mean?
“during the 2004 election cycle, a Republican aide looked on an unsecured server and pulled up a document from (I think) Rockefeller outlining a strategy for making Bush look bad?”
Right. The focus of the media then: Republican malfeance in accessing the document. Not the content. The focus of the media now: the content. It’s as if during Watergate the media ignored the break in because they found evidence of a Democratic slush fund during the robbery. The media is focused. Just not on anything approaching the truth.
Maher is anything but even-handed. He’s vicious to the right and always has been.
Well, shit!
Jes when I thought my noggin had somethin’ in it other’n mush, hair comes th’ wurl’s only jenuus!
Reckin’ I’ll mosey on back ta’ ma’ guns, Bible and sitch. Cain’t wait til Notember so Ic’n pull the “right” leevur!
Bi yuns!
Heee Hawww.
That’s about all I can manage right now.
2+2=Chicken!
OMFG HOW DID I FORGET THIS ABSOLUTE CLASSIC FROM LAST SPRING???????? THIS SO BELONGS HERE!!!!!
Hotty Mary Katherine Ham with able assistance from her talented brother Jon in the prescient music video, , starring Tiny Obama as Hisself!
Thanks Tully!! That was awesome. Little Obama was so cute. Never trust cute things just because they’re cute. Many will try to subtly manipulate you and control your life, lashing out when all else fails *cough* cats *hack* assholes
Mmm. Chicken.
I am just a dumb old redneck with an IQ of 141 and a BS in Electrical Engineering. Of course that don’t count as it came from that Cow College NC State.
Guess I must bow to my intellectual betters.
Like Hell I will, that Socialist Scum from Chi-town can kiss my 30-06.
I can taste your fear of Dem election defeat this November, Rachel.
It is delicious.
I dunno what my IQ is, exactly, but I have read that my SAT scores, from the sixties before the test was dumbed down (795 verbal, 694 math, 800 Physics achievement) would just barely get me into Mensa.
I despise Obama and Biden and all their works, and admire Sarah Palin. I intend to vote for her and that old guy.
P.s. I coulda got an 800 on the verbal if I could have remembered that stupid rhyme about how many days there are in each month.
Well I’m all a’confused. Adam Smith was purty smart, and he sez that men differ less than dogs.
Warning: Be sure to swallow your beverage of choice before clicking.
If I could just stop lickin’ the screen, I’m sure there would be important learnin’ here…
Rach, what makes you all think that weuns wear shoes?
It’s all part of the Progressive – not liberal – belief system. Progressives have always maintained that the ideal government consists not of democratically-elected whoevers, but of carefully-chosen experts. These people would be hand-picked, not for their ability to please the voters but for their credentials and high performance in relevant fields. Of course, the flip-side of this arrangement is that only people with high IQs and fat resumes would get to hold office. The rest of us? We’re obviously not qualified to make important decisions that affect our lives. Our votes would no longer count, or would be merely symbolic.
These are the people who vote for “smart” candidates like Obama, and who think people who do not vote the same way are “stupid.” To them, intellect trumps all other considerations and explains every difference.
Not sure where this attitude came from. Possibly it’s due to Americans’ obsession with higher education since WWII, and especially during the last twenty or thirty years. Many parents have been obsessed with their childrens’ academic performance and ensuring that they get into the “best” colleges. We all read the ridiculous stories about New York parents fighting to get their kids into the “right” kindergartens, etc. I’m wondering if these parents – and possibly their kids – are looking at everyone else through this same lens. If you get the high grades, go to the “best” college, get the “right” job, then you’ve done everything “right” – otherwise, you’re a loser. And of course, everything associated with higher education is also valued – including the left-leaning politics and multiculturalism prevalent on college campuses. Maybe for these people, all these things are not mere choices one makes based on experience and thought. They are signs of success – of having made it, being one of the chosen few, the ones who matter, the movers and shakers.
Even if you, personally, don’t move or shake anything beyond your office space, you’re still part of an elite group, entitled to be heard and deferred to because of your superior mental training. Anyone who hasn’t followed the same path as you have cannot possibly know as much or think as well as you. Such non-educated people cannot be trusted with important matters – they simply don’t have the brain power to deal with the modern world’s complexities. They can’t – they haven’t been to the “best” schools like you have. So you don’t trust them. Their opinions, like those of a child, need not be considered when dealing with the real world. Your reaction is to treat them with friendly condescension or, if they insist on having their say in an election, for example, to remind them harshly of their mental inadequacy and your obvious superiority. It’s ok if you’re not humble about it – you worked hard to get where you are. You frequently use terms such as “critical thinker” or “thinking citizen” to describe yourself and people you approve of. In your case, though, bragging is ok. You are, in fact, an elitist – and proud of it.
lucy Says:
“I never put much stock in IQ tests, but now that Obama and the HuffPo have explained it all to me I realize my score of 140 must truly be meaningless. All this time I thought I was somewhat intelligent, but now I know I’m just an idjit and will hand my life over to the all-knowing saviour of America.”
Ditto that… I pulled off 146 on an administered test (re: social worker giving me questions, not a bogus on line one)… and O! has never seemed all that bright from my POV… This HuPo’er seems like a moron.
Bugs:
Outstanding comment! Explains an awful lot.
Yet it never seems to occur to these highly intelligent types that insulting the intelligence of the very people you need to vote for you to win the election, probably isn’t the way to win friends and influence people. Brilliant, I guess.
Vote for someone smarter than you.
No sir – I’m voting for someone smarter than you.
M’dear, this ranks as one of the most brilliant pieces of satire I’ve read in a coon’s age (I can say that these days in the furry-critter-with-the-striped tail-that-climbs-trees-and-from-whose-skins-caps-were-made-when-I-was-a-boy context, can’t I?)
I rank you with Swift, Twain and Mencken.
me and my bruther jeb got that pichur took rite after we votud fur Bush last time.
You know what really cracks me up? Every time I’ve heard Huffington speak, the theme song from Green Acres immediately begins to play in my head.
br549 Says:
You know what really cracks me up? Every time I’ve heard Huffington speak, the theme song from Green Acres immediately begins to play in my head.
Funny, I’ve suffered from the same malady.
Even before AHuff turned into a liberal.
“personally have never met anyone as smart or as educated as Barack Obama.”
Seriously, do you ever get out of the house?
I just love how smart democracts think they are. If only Republicans could be so intertaining!
hello, Rachel! call me an indiot but when i first checked out this article i think it was thur. that you were linked from conser. grapvine, and i first began to read this article the love just began to flow (thru the universe from me to you) i know its stoopid but think of it like as a bit of a counterbalance from some of the haters (also probly a lot of really good friends who refused to grow and become non-libs who end up not ever having had been real friends anyways, either from not being able to see forest thru trees as useful idiots or actually being truly evil) sko avyways thank you so much y’all made my day and i will check y’out regularly.
I am concerned that Obama uses a teleprompter at town hall meetings. But not because he needs script at such a spontaneous event. It is my rambling mind wondering if he has people off stage (or even off premises) listening, and then writing the replies for him.
Brooke: You may wish to consider something. You may not be a liberal. Or at least, not any longer.
br549 Says:
I am concerned that Obama uses a teleprompter at town hall meetings. But not because he needs script at such a spontaneous event. It is my rambling mind wondering if he has people off stage (or even off premises) listening, and then writing the replies for him.
You mean like John Edward (singular, the so-called “spiritualist, not the plural ex-Senator) has people work the crowd while they wait in the lobby before taping his shows to feed him information, or at least a couple of “televangelists” have done?
br549
Of course, it’s possible brooke is actually a liberal in the traditional sense. She certainly doesn’t seem to be a progressive.
(Sorry brooke, didn’t mean to talk ‘past’ you)
Wow, that Huffington smartypants sure put me in *my* place.
About 10 or 12 years ago I was briefly a member of Mensa. When the time came to re-up, I didn’t bother: I was tired of having to talk down to them, *too.*
Of all the stupid things liberals believe (and it’s a long list), the stupidest is their belief that they’re the smart ones.
“Of all the stupid things liberals believe (and it’s a long list), the stupidest is their belief that they’re the smart ones.”
if they’re so smart,you’d think they could figure out a butterfly ballot,or comprehend the constitution
Hey Rachel, I’m an old fan of yours and a hillbilly from North Carolina trying to live in the Rocky Mountains. I’ll bet the vote from real hillbillies goes to McCain/Palin. The brain-dead people don’t live in the hills, at least they didn’t come from there–they live in the big cities. I’ll let you get away with it but I’ll bet Sarah Palin doesn’t run down hillbillies or even rednecks. I’m not a redneck–only people who spend the day out in the field qualify as rednecks.
Lyndon Says:
Wow, that Huffington smartypants sure put me in *my* place.
About 10 or 12 years ago I was briefly a member of Mensa. When the time came to re-up, I didn’t bother: I was tired of having to talk down to them, *too.*
Of all the stupid things liberals believe (and it’s a long list), the stupidest is their belief that they’re the smart ones.
ROTFL. I invoked the : I qualifed but turned down the invitation.