"As a performer, as a stand-up comedian for 30 years who knows how hard it is to get laughs, excuse me, he went up there, without a net, on a tightrope. There was no teleprompter. He did a bit with just an empty chair and killed," Bill Maher said on his HBO show "Real Time" on Friday.
Much as I'm suprised to find myself agreeing with Maher about anything, he's right.
Since I didn't catch them live, I've been watching them on the web. Most of the best ones seem to have already been posted but I'm fine with pretty much everything Clint Eastwood said.
And I'm speaking out for everybody out there. It doesn't hurt, we don't have to be.... I do not say that word anymore. Well, maybe one last time..... We don't have to be -- what I'm saying, we do not have to be mental masochists and vote for somebody that we don't really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there, I don't know.
edited to add:
Seems a gentle way of telling people they don't have to fall for the schtick of Chris Matthews and the like, the ones claiming he'll always be the One and that opposition to the president can be reduced to nothing but a bunch of racists muttering code words like "Chicago" and "the relaxation of welfare requirements", etc.
That you can jettison the guilt trip the media's laying on you and just admit to yourself: you don't owe him another term and you don't really need a reason other than the fact that if everybody out of work voted against him, he'd have time to commiserate with Carter about how underappreciated they both were.
-- Edited by catahoula on Saturday 1st of September 2012 08:23:35 PM
I am sorry, zoosermom. That is terrible.
I have two boys at home - college degrees- and underemployed in temp jobs. Dropping daughter off at her new college, and hoping in 4 years she either has a degree or a ticket to grad school. While I would love to have her smiling face at home, the reality is that these kids have to launch sometime. It is happening later and later, now.
Condi kicked ass. Ryan was amazing.
I am sorry about what happened to your daughter too, zoosermom. She must have been so devastated. I hope something much better comes to her, and quickly.
I don't have a best line of the convention, as I haven't watched that closely....but the speaker who just told about her sick daughter who had died at 26, that was really touching. Sincere, and very convincing. Romney looks like a saint right now.
-- Edited by busdriver11 on Thursday 30th of August 2012 07:37:52 PM
I cried like a baby when I heard that line. It is the God's honest truth. My D1 had been offered a job in her field earlier this week and showed up at orientation only to find out that someone higher up had hired someone else and not only did she not have that job, she might not be able to keep her prior job. This generation is being destroyed and it will only get worse. I pray every day for a new administration. The fact that they're planning Abortionpalooza next week shows that the democrats still don't get it.
"College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."
Ours has never been a narrative of grievance and entitlement. We have not believed that I am doing poorly because you are doing well.
And we need to give parents greater choice – particularly poor parents whose kids – most often minorities are trapped in failing neighborhood schools. This is the civil rights struggle of our day.
And on a personal note– a little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham – the most segregated big city in America - her parents can’t take her to a movie theater or a restaurant – but they make her believe that even though she can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter – she can be President of the United States and she becomes the Secretary of State.
- Condoleezza Rice
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” – Mark Twain
Really.
The famous lie, "I'm from the Government, I'm here to help you."
