Rob Long
Rob Long · Aug 5, 2011 at 1:21am

From a great blog -- Granite Grok -- I just discovered, and one that's going to be a must-click as the campaign heats up:

ObamaWreck
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show Beasley's comment (#1) ←
Beasley
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Re: My Work Here is Done

Beasley

Thanks for the link. I really like the Neal Stephenson quote below the poster you shared. His book "Cryptonomicon" is resting, half finished on my night stand.It is a brilliant story about military codes and computers as they existed circa WWII.

And the "slice-of-life" anecdote about telling a waitress "may your brains fall out of your ears like pancake syrup" in Swedish brightened my night. 

Where do you find these guys?

show Ombra's comment (#2) ←

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Re: My Work Here is Done

Ombra

 Ditto, thanks very much for the link. The President can't take all the credit for our present state of affairs, but he's entitled to feel the pride of having pursued policies that have ham strung the economy in so many ways.

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David Williamson
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Re: My Work Here is Done

David Williamson

I am glad to see that Mr Obama's dress code has remained intact.

In reality, from his point of view, his work has hardly started.

If I may quote the sharp-creased one: “When I said ‘change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say ‘change we can believe in tomorrow.’ Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy.”

Ah, democracy is the problem... the Hobbits.

Edited on Aug 5, 2011 at 4:39am
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tabula rasa
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Re: My Work Here is Done

tabula rasa

Wait!  I see a few trees still standing.

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Terrell David
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Re: My Work Here is Done

Terrell David

Wow.  The human wrecking ball illustrated.

Thanks

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Larry Koler
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Re: My Work Here is Done

Larry Koler

Great picture.

And Beasley, I agree the Stephenson quote is excellent! I am a fan of his but never reliably knew what his politics were.

It's short:

  • “But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
  • "We Americans are the only ones who didn't get creamed at some point during all of this. We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and values systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals, and with anything like intellectualism, even to the point of not reading books any more, though we are literate. We seem much more comfortable with propagating those values to future generations non-verbally, through a process of being steeped in media.”
  • - Neal Stephenson 

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