Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
The following sounds like something Rush Limbaugh might have said on his radio show circa October 2008. In actuality, it's an excerpt of a Sunday editorial by an opinion writer you've most definitely heard of. Two points if you can guess the mystery author; one point if you can guess the mystery publication (no cheating!).
HE was born this way.
Bi.
Not bisexual. Not even bipartisan. Just binary.
Our president likes to be on both sides at once.
In Afghanistan, he wants to go but he wants to stay. He’s surging and withdrawing simultaneously. He’s leaving fewer troops than are needed for a counterinsurgency strategy and more troops than are needed for a counterterrorism strategy — and he seems to want both strategies at the same time. Our work is done but we have to still be there. Our work isn’t done but we can go.
On Libya, President Obama wants to lead from behind. He’s engaging in hostilities against Qaddafi while telling Congress he’s not engaging in hostilities against Qaddafi.
On the budget, he wants to cut spending and increase spending. On the environment, he wants to increase energy production but is reluctant to drill. On health care, he wants to get everybody covered but will not press for a universal system. On Wall Street, he assails fat cats, but at cocktail parties, he wants to collect some of their fat for his campaign.
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Mar '11
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
I got the publication right but I thought the author was David Brooks.
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Obama jumps the shark!!
Dec '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Actually, to be binary he has to choose one or the other, either 1 or 0. He wants it both ways, so the better analogy would be that he is a petulant toddler.
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Surprised at all? I was (though perhaps I shouldn't have been...).
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
In boolean circuit theory, our president is an OR gate
Aug '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Had not heard about this- I'm going to go with Maureen Dowd in the conservatory with a candlestick, no, make that a rolled-up New York Times.
Jul '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Nah, say what you will about Brooks, but he doesn't write like the editor of the Robert C Byrd High School Bugle.
It takes a profoundly untalented writer to craft prose like this.
Dec '10
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Diane, you sneaky devil. I noticed you posted another same-sex marriage article. Very clever.
Aug '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Kenneth
Nah, say what you will about Brooks, but he doesn't write like the editor of the Robert C Byrd High School Bugle.
It takes a profoundly untalented writer to craft prose like this. · Jun 26 at 10:27am
Just finished skimming the thing. Yikes! what a flaming sack of scattered screed that was.
A mere six to eight monkees, sans typewriters, could fling out better copy in no time.
Jan '11
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
To my disgust, I already knew, since I'd already read it on Real Clear Politics.
But as for the content, I can't help but focus on the phrase: "to govern is to choose." For this president, what does he think he's doing there, if he doesn't want to choose?
Dec '10
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Kenneth
Nah, say what you will about Brooks, but he doesn't write like the editor of the Robert C Byrd High School Bugle.
It takes a profoundly untalented writer to craft prose like this. · Jun 26 at 10:27a
The poor woman tried to compete with Catherine Zeta-Jones and now she tries to compete with Mark Steyn.
Aug '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Except for the style, I was thinking it could be Charles Krauthammer; it's that incisive, cutting, and irrefutable. But Maureen Dowd?! Never would I have thought. Obama has crossed the Rubicon and isn't coming back.
Dec '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
In digital circuit design, I'd represent him as an un-debounced J/K flip-flop: he changes state with every new bit of input that hits him.
May '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
George Savage In boolean circuit theory, our president is an OR gate #5 ·Jun 26 at 10:24am And like they always told us in grade school: Two X/ORs don't make a NAND gate.
Dec '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
The Three-Step Program To Liberal Abandonment of Obama:
Step 1 was: "He's not committed to using his political capital to win Progressive goals!"
Step 2 is now: "He's indecisive!"
Step 3 will be: "He's not all that bright, is he?"
Feb '11
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
His Royal Bi-ness.
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
Stuart Creque
In digital circuit design, I'd represent him as an un-debounced J/K flip-flop: he changes state with every new bit of input that hits him. · Jun 26 at 11:31am
Stuart, yes indeed. Except we would need to keep Obama's true state (hard left) in memory and only change the displayed state following each input.
True story. Way back in Digital Circuit Design on October 31st, the following was written on the board: "Don't forget your hex inverter, it's Halloween."
May '10
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George Savage
Stuart Creque
In digital circuit design, I'd represent him as an un-debounced J/K flip-flop: he changes state with every new bit of input that hits him. · Jun 26 at 11:31am
Stuart, yes indeed. Except we would need to keep Obama's true state (hard left) in memory and only change the displayed state following each input.
True story. Way back in Digital Circuit Design on October 31st, the following was written on the board: "Don't forget your hex inverter, it's Halloween." · Jun 26 at 12:54pm
I'll borrow from the Texas state senator whose name I can't remember despite the splash he made with the following: Why aren't you speaking English?
Dec '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
George Savage
Stuart Creque
In digital circuit design, I'd represent him as an un-debounced J/K flip-flop: he changes state with every new bit of input that hits him. · Jun 26 at 11:31am
Stuart, yes indeed. Except we would need to keep Obama's true state (hard left) in memory and only change the displayed state following each input.
True story. Way back in Digital Circuit Design on October 31st, the following was written on the board: "Don't forget your hex inverter, it's Halloween." · Jun 26 at 12:54pm
In Honors Chemistry, the TA drew an O on the board with two long ears going up and two lines at angles off the bottom to R's. "See," she said, "it's the Ether Bunny!"
May '10
Re: Barack Obama, the First "Bi" in the White House?
On one of my favorite websites, this is where we post a picture of Michael Douglas with Catherine Zeta-Jones.