Hard News: The odds, and the simply odd
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Tim on page one:
I attended an Obama rally in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend and while I can't speak for a McCain rally, I found the Obama rally to be a really inspiring event
There's another take on how much fun the Obama rallies are in this piece in The New York Review of Books of a rally in Philadelphia.
And yet what struck me in this perfect little model of political art was a tiny riff inserted into the tiny story, brought on by a shout from the crowd. When Obama launched into his story with "Because I love pie" a woman in the crowd shouted back, "I'll make you pie, baby!" and to the general hooting laughter the candidate returned, "Oh yeah, you're gonna make me pie?" Then, after a beat, amid even more raucous laughter, and several other female voices shouting out invitations, "You gonna make me sweet potato pie?" More shouts and laughter. "All of you gonna make me pie?"
"Well you know I love sweet potato pie. And I think what we're going to have to do here"—and the laughter and the shouting rose and his voice rose above it—"what we're going to have to do is have a sweet potato pie contest... That's right. And in this contest, I'm gonna be the judge." The laughter rose and you could hear not only the women but the deep laughter of the men taking delight in the double entendre that was not only about sex, about that pie that that lanky confident smiling young man knew how to eat and enjoy and judge, but even more now, amazingly, as people came one by one to recognize, about something else. To those people gathered in Vernon Park that bright sundrenched morning, an even more titillating and more pleasurable double entendre, for it was most clearly about something they'd never had but hoped and dreamed of having and now had begun to believe they were within the shortest of short distances of finally tasting. "Because you all know," said the candidate, "that I know sweet potato pie."
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He sees the winding ocean drive
Tamaki Drive?
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Tamaki Drive?
That was what I thought, too.
I also thought:
"cause it just belongs to you and me [an unacceptable situation which post-election will be remedied by the implementation of a plan to have it taken into private ownership, with ongoing maintenance and infrastrucutre costs covered by a public-private partnership agreement, of which the risk component of the financial aspect will be borne by the taxpayer].
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Speaking of Palin, someone called davidfarrar thinks that the silent majority has gone for her in a big way. They're just not voting for her, this time.
This is what that majority looks like:
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Yeah, that sounds like DPF, right down to the mis-spelling of "diminish".
I'm scared you knew that was there...
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And god I laughed out loud at the end of the vid when he says "for Al Jezeera" - in America's heartland! It's a wonder he got out alive.
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I'm scared you knew that was there...
I was following a link from Andrew Sullivan's blog to what was touted as a far-right punditry site. It's true what they say about Kiwis, we get everywhere.
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What sort of an election would it be without some last minute carpet-bombing from Wishart and/or Hager?
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@andrew
My gods, it's not even in print yet and already the beasts are foaming. But i did like the last comment:
Is this the biggest most unprecendented political scandal since the last one?
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My gods, it's not even in print yet and already the beasts are foaming. But i did like the last comment:
How often do we have to tell people, there's no prize for reading to the end of a kiwiblog page.
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I find it's like marathons - getting to the end makes the pain worthwhile and you can say "we knocked the bastard off!". Also, the recovery time is about the same.
But I do advise doing it as early as possible so that there's not so much bile to plow through
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Mmmm...plowing through bile. That's a lovely picture for a Friday morning.
I'm wondering if Wishart's like one of those people with a wonky internal thermostat - you know, the ones that start whinging about the cold when everybody else is quite comfortable.
Maybe he sees a
scandal
, and instantly his little dial registers in the red. Anyone else looks, and the little needle just hovers around standard operating temperature...
He should see someone about that.
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Re Wishart
His teaser mp3 indicates that it's a passport scandal -
Re Wishart
His teaser mp3 indicates that it's a passport scandalDamn, I had money on it being The Rapture.
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LOL
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Wishart will surely run out o adjectives when the Rapture arrives (in a couple o hours, innit?)
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Wishart will surely run out o adjectives when the Rapture arrives (in a couple o hours, innit?)
Other than "ouch, ouchy, it burns, it burns"?
<link-whoring>How's this for dubious but, games the fundies play where the unbelievers get toasted</link-whoring>
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"ouch, ouchy, it burns, it burns"
But said like Jon Stewart would..
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