Footprints, Obama Edition
When Peter Suderman of Reason magazine read the Obama campaign's bit on Julia, he realized that her story sounded very familiar:
One night Julia dreamed she was walking along the beach with the POTUS.
Many scenes from her life flashed across the sky.
In each scene, she noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints.
Other times she only saw one set of footprints.This bothered Julia because she noticed that during the low points of her life,
when she was suffering
from underemployment, student loan debt, and excessively high insurance copays,
she could only see one set of footprints.So Julia said to the POTUS:
“You promised me POTUS
that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I have noticed that during
the most trying periods of my life
there have only been one
set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most,
were you not there for me?The POTUS replied,
“The times when you have only
seen one set of footprints
is when I carried you.”
Brilliant. Also, our country is doomed.
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Jul '11
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I think we should stay with one God but let's vote on it. Very cute story.
Feb '11
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Brilliant! But I suspect the Cult of Personality that is the liberal left won't get it.
Aug '10
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There should have been millions of footprints, to represent all the taxpayers required to maintain this one person's "needs".
Jun '10
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Those are going to be some very deep footprints if people think the president can carry us all. Footprints on the beach will be an apt metaphor when the tide of bankruptcy finally rolls in.
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This comment is even better than Suderman's terrific piece.
May '10
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Why did it hurt so much when I laughed?
Dec '10
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Surely this is how Obama sees himself. But as Mistheocracy points out, Obama is doing none of the heavy lifting himself.
Mar '11
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I did not realize it was possible to laugh at absurdity yet have a sick feeling in your stomach all from the same passage.
Jun '10
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Query: Is there a constituency for whom this whole Julia thing works, other than the extreme lefties? Doesn't seem to be selling well.
Over at NRO, they're running a poll that asks, "Is 'Julia' pathetic?' It's running 98-2 in the affirmative. Yes, those are conservatives, but I have a hard time believing that independents will be moved by it.
May '10
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Same here.
Apr '11
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I'm curious to know whether those footprints were in a place where the oceans have since reseeded and the planet has since healed or are they at risk of being submerged and washed away by the rising tides.
Or, if it was truly POTUS who was doing the heavy lifting, then those footprints would have proceeded not along the shoreline, but ended at the waters edge where he would have carried dear Julia, across the water, to the promised land flowing with milk and honey (FDA and Michelle approved, mind you).
Thanks Mollie
Sep '10
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So Julia said to the POTUS:
"I love you."
And POTUS replied, after resting on the seventh day from a grueling day of salad and college basketball:
"Thank you. Michelle will be here any moment. Call a cab."
May '10
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And then, there's Buttprints.
Apr '11
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There is only one set of prints because that is when Julia had to carry Potus so he would get his loafers wet at high tide.
Obama carries no one.
Jan '12
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I've been trying to avoid this Julia tripe--for Christ's sake, people, Iran is trying to get nukes already!--, but it follows wherever I go. Even on Volokh I cannot escape. Apparently, if Julia must wait until 67 to begin collecting Social Security, she won't have as much time to putter away in the community garden. Boofubarhoo! Woe betide her, though, should she endeavor to open a lemonade stand. The regulators will be on her like ducks on a junebug.
Edited on May 4, 2012 at 8:18pmNov '11
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POTUS, "Put me down, right now!"
Jan '12
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TR: How many independents do you know who are pining away for the day when they can do their bit of "honorable labor?" (Remember that passage from Orson Scott Card's book with the Chinese girl, presumably a daughter of some Party grandee in the future equivalent of the Politburo, drudging her fingers--and her mind--away? I think it was in the Ender series.) It's strictly a leftie thing.
Before my own retirement, I was employed in Berkeley. Across the street was a plot of land belonging to UC that was given over as a community garden. It flourished for about six months, then for years afterward it produced nothing but weeds. A prime case of theory running into praxis. The Jamestown settlers found that out 400 years ago, but lefties are slow on the uptake. It's all about power, comrade.
Edited on May 5, 2012 at 12:00amFeb '12
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My wife's suggested ending, which I heartily endorse :-) "The POTUS replied,'The times when you have only seen one set of footprints is when was on the back 9.'"