Hey everyone! Sorry that I have been so flaky lately about this whole "being connected 24 hours a day" thing. I've been a little busy. Also, people have been asking about pictures from my Sweden trip, and I promise I will put up some video this weekend.But I just couldn't resist talking about a little politics today! This was today's front page in the local trashy daily The Sun. The paper is awful (some other headlines: Lotto Perv Made Girl Have Sex As Her Rent and the daring expose' Soldiers Risk Life Yet Earn Less Than A Traffic Warden ... you should see the diagram for THAT story), but I was very interested in what it would say about my buddy Barack.
The story, titled Barack To The Future, was pretty straight forward, and was obviously written by some freshman on a laptop. It also mentions that Obama was "previously unknown [until he] ignited his mission for the White House with a barnstorming speech in South Carolina in January." Who knew??
Nevertheless, I was excited to read about my buddy. I was also excited to read this gem of an article from another blog. It's from February and called The Chicago Dillusion, boldly claiming that (are you ready?) Obama (who by February must have moved up to "slightly well-known") will win the nomination but lose in the general election! Oh, but the acute political insight doesn't end there! In fact, the author says that Obama is the perfect symbol of Chicago because he is so contradictory and delusional. Want proof??
A practicing Christian, he bears a Muslim name. Identifying himself as an African-American, Obama is the offspring of a man from Kenya and a woman from Kansas. A self-proclaimed son of Chicago, he attended school overseas and spent most of his childhood in Hawaii, the last state, the state that doesn't appear on most maps.
They also forgot "He says he loves America, yet he also says he loves his family," and "Was running for Democratic nominee, now says he's running for President."
Gotta love it!
- Lunn
p.s. Can I start "e-beef" with another blog?? Is that possible?? If so, I want to do it.
p.p.s. I got a job yesterday! Sixth Grade Social Studies at Lusher Charter School, New Orleans Louisiana. Be proud of me!
7 comments:
e-beef? fill the readers in! unless you have beef with my blog, in which case, I will cry. a lot.
look for an e-mail to arrive soon.
Oh, I don't want to have beef with your blog, Goodnames. I want to have beef with the Chicago Dillusion blog! I mean, isn't someone who criticizes a politician for being from "the last state, the state that doesn't appear on most maps" asking for a few lines in a freestyle battle? I could sell millions of albums. Want to tag-team?
Of course, since I am a changed man, I have to really stick to this "We're not red states and blue states" mumbojumbo and start being civil. We'll see how long that lasts.
Haha. I'm staying out of this political battle. I do encourage you to go for it though, you know, so I can blog about the bloodshed later.
Also, your messages in a bottle don't get comments? Are you sure you're doing it right? How did you even pick that entry to comment on? Was the emo whining in the previous 8 posts too much?
I BE PROUD OF YOU!
Uhm, I wrote that post, and nobody seems to have understood what I actually meant. Right-wing idiots quickly pounced on it, even though my post was actually more of a dream-like reflection on why Obama scares people, and what makes him unique (and tying him to Sun Ra, no less, which I thought rather interesting.)
For the record, I've donated money to Obama's campaign and am entirely behind him and hope he wins the election, so I don't know what kind of "throwdown" you are looking for with me. If you read the post in the larger context of my blog, I think you'd see that it is not what you seem to think it is.
hahaha oh man! i lost the battle already!
For the record, you are totally right David- the right wing blogs LOVE to reference your post. But, like me, they obviously didn't get the joke.
Yeah, it's fucking frustrating actually. My blog doesn't have many readers so I like to sort of use it to muse on things in an abstract sort of way. So I wrote that post in February, and then I started getting all these "Barack Obama is a Muslim" assholes showing up at my site. So I put a link at the end of the post to the snopes.com refutation of the various smears against Obama.
I only wrote it because I could tie Barack Obama to Sun Ra, one of my favorite jazz musicians. It sort of amused me. I might have to go to some of these right-wing sites and counterattack, but then, those people are probably beyond hope anyways.
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