Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
May 25, 2012 at 2:51pm
From Politico's Playbook this morning:
[David] Maraniss’s Obama is sympathetic, and in contrast to his exotic background, he emerges as a normal, well-adjusted guy. At Occidental, ‘Barry’’s Mick Jagger impression was legendary, and as a teen at Honolulu’s Punahou School, he was known for snagging joints from his buddies’ hands and shouting ‘Intercepted!’ before taking an extra hit. Halfway through the book, Maraniss describes a day when a high-school teacher asked Obama what people should most fear. ‘Words,’ uttered the boy who would be known for his stirring speeches. ‘Words … can be weapons of destruction.’
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Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
I can't be the only person who finds this detail about our President hilar-disturbing, can I?
Jul '10
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Which detail Mollie? That he's a jackass?
It is, after all, the party logo...
Aug '11
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
All that comes to mind is that Penn Jillette rant.
Also, that there's nothing particularly "normal" or "well-adjusted" about that, is there?
Edited on May 25, 2012 at 4:06pmRe: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
This morning my husband and I have been going around shouting "Intercepted!" as we steal things from our children or each other.
It's the perfect word for this presidency. Everything gets intercepted. From joint tokes to health insurance to our children's future!
Jul '10
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
This morning my husband and I have been going around shouting "Intercepted!" as we steal things from our children or each other.
It's the perfect word for this presidency. Everything gets intercepted. From joint tokes to health insurance to our children's future! · 0 minutes ago
I'm currently imagining Michelle intercepting a bacon cheeseburger and a Marlboro.
Admittedly, it would help more if she stuck to hectoring him.
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Oh wow. You have to see this guide to smoking pot with Barack Obama:
and so on and so forth.
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
I sense the "intercepted" theme would make for a great ad against Obama. Begin with this tale from the biography. Then have Obama intercepting all these liberties and goods that we normally associate with being American.
It could be called "Bogarting Your Freedom" or something.
Sep '10
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Someone should tell Barack to think of taxpayer dollars as "good bud" and apply the Choom Gang philosophy. You just have to speak these kids lingo and they'll get it.
Sep '10
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.: I sense the "intercepted" theme would make for a great ad against Obama. Begin with this tale from the biography. Then have Obama intercepting all these liberties and goods that we normally associate with being American.
It could be called "Bogarting Your Freedom" or something. · 1 hour ago
That would make Julia the Girl, Intercepted.
May '12
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
That Obama fell in with Bill Ayres seems perfectly natural now.
And that he did nothing to help Ayres when the Kennedy's finally got their revenge (the Kennedy's really are like the American version of the Plantagenets) on Ayres by denying him the one last honor he wanted, that also makes sense.
That said, I do not see the Obamas being players into the third, or even second generation.
It's too bad Obama is too much of a hypocrite to be the ex-President who has his picture taken with a pair porn stars like Bill Clinton.
I cannot say I like Bill Clinton, but he is charming and has been very lucky, known what to do with that charm and luck, and he does have cojones.
Clinton may even be smart enough to know he's no Kennedy, and play the hand he's been dealt.
Sep '10
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Pseudodionysius
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.: I sense the "intercepted" theme would make for a great ad against Obama. Begin with this tale from the biography. Then have Obama intercepting all these liberties and goods that we normally associate with being American.
It could be called "Bogarting Your Freedom" or something. · 1 hour ago
That would make Julia the Girl, Intercepted.· 6 hours ago
Or would that be Girl, Contracepted?
(I can already hear the groaning from some of our members)
Aug '11
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
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Apr '11
Re: Also 'Intercepted!': Your Health Care Plan, Paycheck, Job
Just today I was reminded--never mind how--that Dave Guard and Bob Shane, founding members of the revolutionary Kingston Trio, also went to Honolulu’s Punahou School, where they learned to play ukelele in the compulsory music classes, whence they taught themselves to play guitar.
It would be interesting to ask Obama whether he learned to play ukelele, since: