Cost of the Albatross

UPDATE. Oh, let's just put this up top, and ask ourselves, who is more of an imbecile, the imbecile who writes the e-mail, or the NRO editor who publishes it?

COINCIDENCE?   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Question from a reader:

Does the selloff on Wall Street have anything to do with the increasing likelihood that Obama will be our next president? 

Note that the two trends — the financial meltdown, despite passage of the bailout, and the solidification of Obama's lead — are coinciding.  At a minimum, the market's behavior is not a vote of confidence in an Obama presidency.

Joe Conason could right now probably just go take all of his 1990s columns, scratch out "Bill Clinton," write in "Barack Obama," and take the next eight years off. 

DOWNDATE. Something I think about every four years or so is that Undecided Voters = Morons. Here is an undecided voter in Minnesota, who is specifically undecided about the Senate race between Al Franken, the irremediably stupid Norm Coleman, and another guy.

Rochester resident Scott Forstie, 43, brought his son, Zack, 14, to the debate. He said he doesn't know whom he will vote for but that he was most impressed by Barkley on Sunday night.

Forstie said foreign affairs and the economy weigh most heavily on his mind and that Barkley's message of fiscal discipline resonated with him.

During the debate, Barkley promoted a four-year federal spending freeze and said, "I'm not going to promise new spending ... I'm not going to pander to you."

Forstie liked that.

"It was refreshing to hear someone say they weren't going to promise me something they couldn't deliver," Forstie said.

Barkley just did that, you idiot.

Comments

[aimai]

Forstie was encouraged when Barkley also offered to come to his house, rape his dog, and watch him call 911 for police protection that had ceased to exist. He also promised to drive him to a closed emergency room. Down bumpy roads and across broken bridges.

"its refreshing, really" he said "that Barkley doesn't pander to things I used to want, as a citizen. I've come to understand that my desire to live in a safe, secure, upper class neighborhood was selfish and unamerican. Thanks, barkley, for telling it like it is!"

aimai

[Bitter Scribe]

Does the selloff on Wall Street have anything to do with the fact that people like K-Lo are taken seriously?

Note that the two trends — the financial meltdown, despite passage of the bailout, and the increasing stridency and inanity of her writing — are coinciding. At a minimum, the market's behavior is not a vote of confidence in a Lopez punditry.

[jasperjava]

If a guy like Barkley can make inroads within the low-IQ constituency that constitutes an important element of Coleman's base, that's good news for Al Franken.

[Jemand von Niemand]

When people start listening to somebody -- like this gentleman? Look out.

[Jay_B.]

"It was refreshing to hear someone say they weren't going to promise me something they couldn't deliver," Forstie said.

The New Dominos Slogan (wholeheartedly embraced by Mr. Forstie) We Won't Promise You Shit. 30 minutes? Fuck you! What the fuck, are we robots? You want pizza that tastes good? Go stand in line with the yuppies at that place in Prospect Heights, asshole. We're not gonna promise that. Hell, we're not gonna promise that we'll even deliver the pizza, or that, in the case we do, it will have the correct toppings. In fact, fuck you.

Mr. Forstie: "I never knew how good honesty tasted!"

[El Cid]

Yes, but what if I don't promise to not commit to what I can't at all be sure I won't be able to deliver?

Will I have his vote then?

[Gerald Curl]

An undecided voter said on NPR that she is "scared" of Obama because he "he's got the right answer for everything." Seriously, undecided voters are the dumbest fucking people in the world.

[aimai]

come to think of it, Jay B, wasn't "fuck you, I've got mine?" the new slogan of Carl Junior's in Idiocracy?

aimai

[rea]

Barkley promoted a four-year federal spending freeze

At the start of a recession? My god--they want to crash the economy. Haven't they heard of Keynes?