Obama: He Comes by his Feminism Naturally

Far be it from me to advance the meme that Big Guy is just a hen-pecked husband and president. In all truth though, I didn’t build that meme, somebody else did that. (H/T Jody Kantor, Ed Klein, David Maraniss)

Butt I have to admit, there’s both smoke,

          

and fire with this one.

For one thing, Barry (as he was known back then) came from a long line of radical feminists; heck I think even his Grandpa was a feminist. Why else would he insist on calling Barry’s Mom “Stanley” anyway? And apparently “Stanley” practiced unsafe “feminism” long before it was even officially entered in the progressive lexicon. Liberated since birth by her left-leaning parents, Stanley led the charge for feminism’s lofty principles of sexual freedom. Seriously, how many other coeds in 1960 – long before the introduction of reproductive rights (i.e. free contraceptives and abortions) or even reliable contraceptives and legal abortions – were taking the risk of being punished with a baby by sleeping around? Even with their steady boyfriends, let alone with married black guys twice their age from an exotic foreign country? Yes, Barry comes by his feminist credentials legitimately.

All of which explains Barry’s immediate attraction to Michelle Lavaughn Robinson who also was a staunch feminist, as you’ll see below. Not that they didn’t share other things as well: she was black, he has half black, both were Harvard trained minority lawyers, both admired the same radical minority/feminist professors, both had ambition, drive (well, Lavaughn anyway) – I think you can see how that first kiss was inevitable.

And the rest is just historic.

And somehow a little icky.

Butt as I promised yesterday, today I examine Lavaughn’s essay for Harvard’s Black Law Student’s Association back when she was a student. You’ll see how Barry and Lavaughn were kindred spirits even before they met. Both of course were law students at Harvard, both were exposed to and enjoyed the teachings of progressive professors such as Martha Minow (whose dad, Newton, recruited both Michelle and Barry for the Sidley Austin firm based in Chicago), Charles Ogletree (owner of an estate on Martha’s Vineyard butt NOT the victim of “cops acting stupidly” fame [h/t: PD from MA] ) and Derrick (critical race theorist) Bell. Other esteemed Harvard Law professors at the time were either below their radar, or too committed to that outdated mode of teaching known as “the Socratic method” to warrant a mention in Lavaughn’s otherwise excellent article.

You can read the entire thing here:

Michelle Obama Law School BLSA Essay

Or allow me to summarize the 4 pages for you:

Old white guys who teach using the Socratic method suck. Because they aren’t diverse. And white guys are mean to their students – unlike the diverse faculty members who treat students with the respect they so richly deserve, especially the female and minority students. And they’re mean, just because they can be; they have that power over you - the white guys I mean, not the female and minority faculty members who are much more empathetic. And it’s just a sadistic thing they do for their amusement, not in order to toughen the students up to deal with real world bullies when they finally emerge from the academic bubble. And students shouldn’t have to put up with that kind of treatment, not in law school and certainly not out in the real world where they’ll have to constantly deal with peons of much smaller intellect than themselves.

In summary then: diverse professors are much better than old white guys who aren’t empathetic, pick on students and expect them to know the class materials. So Harvard should hire and tenure more minority female professors who won’t do that and therefor make going to school there more fun and less stressful for minority and female students.

Now, back to the allegations that Big Guy is henpecked; that’s just ridiculous. All you have to do to disabuse yourself of that notion is look at the people he surrounds himself with:

 

                       

                

               

Just because they know what he’s going to say before the words come off TOTUS doesn’t mean he’s henpecked.

And who are you calling an old hen, anyway?

 

I’m not sure you want to go there.

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Have you seen the latest unemployment numbers? That’s hilarious!

Uh oh! Did you see this? Russia convicted the Pussy Cat Riot and put them in jail for 2 years!

Just for making fun of President Putin!  I knew this sort of hooliganism could be a career-buster, butt I swear - I did not know it was illegal! Maybe you can only make fun of Republicans.

I guess it’s just one more reminder that we live in dangerous times. I think I’ll check in with Raj this afternoon and do our monthly firewall test a few weeks early; just to make sure everything is still all shored up. Not that I’m worried about making fun of our president. He’s got a great sense of humor, and it’s still legal here, right?

Besides, I don’t really make fun of Big Guy. I don’t have to.

I just report.

You deride.

A message from Obama headquarters

And as everybody knows, there’s really nothing to make fun of when it comes to our first postmodern, post racial, post partisan el presidente.

Meanwhile, did you see the latest unemployment numbers?

“the private sector is doing fine”

"we tried our plan -- and it worked."

Now THAT’S hilarious!

Unemployment rises in 44 of the 57 states. Up to 12% in Nevada. 9% in Michigan (where Big Guy saved the auto industry – otherwise Michigan might have beaten Nevada, where Big Guy told people not to go to waste their money. And apparently it IS working, because yesterday I saw Morgan-Stanley/Smith Barney holding their summer conference at a local Coney Island.).

Well, I’ve got to run now. I’ve got to pick the August harvest from Lady M’s organic Garden of Good and Evil; which is to say, I’ve got to go to the farmer’s market to buy some reasonable facsimiles for a photo op.

Tomorrow I’ll provide analysis of Lady M’s recently discovered Harvard essay in support of the anti-meritocracy. It’s a good one!

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George–O, George-O, No peace I find…

Friday already, and there’s a lot of family news to catch up on that I didn’t get a chance to cover during the week.

First, let me be clear, if Big Guy had a half-brother in Kenya, he’d look just like George Obama.

…just an old sweet song keeps George-O on my mind

In fact he does - have a half-brother in Kenya that is. And it is George! And if you look closely you can even see the family resemblance.

Apparently George has fallen on hard times and his son (Big Guy’s nephew) needed surgery that George couldn’t afford. So he did what any father would do, he reached out to the only brother he knew that would help him: Dinesh D’Souza. I guess he tried to call Big Guy, butt he was unavailable, uninterested or just disinclined to pitch in.

Just like Hillary when BO called on her to help out.

Vice President? Yeah, no. Thanks for asking, butt I have to stay home and wash my hair.

Oh well, at least our negotiations with Hill landed us an endorsement and speech from Big Dawg at the convention.

Anyway, from half-brothers to mother-in-laws, we just couldn’t get away from family controversy this week. After Big BO’s slip up (placing Little Bo’s charm-potential ahead of Granny R’s) he immediately recovered and ingratiated himself back into her good graces:

“You know, I love my mother-in-law, too - that’s where Michelle got her looks from.”

Of course that landed him back in Lady M’s dog house, for obvious reasons:

No further commentary necessary

So we quickly moved on to a much sweeter story: the “first kiss” as related to no other than the first Big O in Chicago - the Oprah herself. Commemorating the composite first kiss, a lovely plaque on a rock was placed at the site of the actual event:

And how sweet is this? It was at a Baskin Robbins – which explains the “tastes like chocolate” remark. Despite the fact that BO is half white, it wasn’t a racist comment after all, regardless of what Touré thinks about the use of racial coding to access “some really deep stereotypes.”

Butt enough about racial animosity in this historical post racial presidency. This marker will no doubt be just the first in a series of plaques about our historic presidency all across America.

The only problem with the new plaque of course is the inconvenient fact that it’s at a Baskin Robbins, which was one of those failing companies that those Vulture Capitalists at Bain Capital invested in, revived and sent about it’s new revitalized business. Bummer.

Although I see they did create a special ice cream to mark the “first composite kiss” :

Although this will NEVER replace the ever popular Barocky Road ice cream they created back in ‘09 to commemorate the inauguration:

And I guess as long as we’re talking about illegal pleasures, I should note for the record that Lady M tried to make up for all the backlash she got for scolding little Gabby for eating her Egg McMuffin. She temporarily hopped off the healthy eating chuck wagon  and gave Big Guy the green light to enjoy his deep-fried Twinkie at the Iowa State Fair:

"Even though you say I don't let you eat them, you eat what you want."

 

And don’t even think about getting started with me!

After all, I didn’t build this dog eating thing into a controversy; somebody else did that.

Have a nice weekend.

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Our Postmodern, Post-racial, Post Partisan el Presidente: a Primer

Our historic postmodern, post racial, post partisan president is not the perfect president, as he himself has acknowledged. Butt Lady M? She is perfect: the perfect wife, perfect mom and perfect First Lady. Butt you already knew that.

The perfect MOm, home from another day of sacrificin’

So welcome to Big Guy’s postmodern presidency (PMP) that evolves around his own sun and resides in its own alternate universe. Of course, he didn’t build that himself. The MSM built that for him.

Allow me to cover some of the more salient points of the PMP universe:

In our world this is not the face of racism:

“They're going to put y'all back in chains,"

Because he’s a Democrat, and therefore champion of all minorities. So it doesn’t matter what words come out of his mouth even if they happen to be something like “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," which would be racist if they came out of the mouth of a rich white Republican who hates black people and wants to kill your babies.

Nor is it racism for the New Black Panthers to take Big Guy’s idea of “a civilian military force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” to the next level. So when they say they want their own inner city military to murder white babies it’s not racist. I’ll have to go over the details as to exactly why this isn’t racism at a later date. For now, just note that if you, or your people, are now, or ever have been, oppressed you can only be a victim of racism not a perpetrator.

National Field Marshal for the New Black Panthers King Samir Shabazz, explains how the New Black Panthers are implementing Big Guy’s call for a civilian national security force:

CAUTION: GRAPHIC

(h/t: Breitbart and Big Guy)

Goodness! That sort of takes your breath away. Those people (is that racist?) make the Reverend Wright sound like a boy scout.

So what does constitute racism in PMP world? Glad you asked: just about anything a Republican candidate says about anything, especially if it can be tied in some way to our PMP. For example, when Romney criticized Big Guy for dropping work requirements for welfare recipients by fiat, the verdict was swift: racist - according to our official “Truth Team”

 

In this postmodern, post racial, post partisan world all truth is relative, all political attacks are deemed to be equal in order to make things fair. Here, Breitbart analyzes Politico’s analysis:

Politico…cites the following attacks:

• From Vice President Joe Biden: “They gonna put ya’ll back in chains.”
• From Mitt Romney: “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.”
• From Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt: Romney is “unhinged.”
• From Obama: Romney put a dog on the roof of his car.
• From Romney: Biden’s comments on coal, in which he said that coal caused more deaths than terrorism, showed his lack of vision for the country.
• The Obama campaign has called Romney a felon and a murderer.

You may be noticing a pattern: Romney’s campaign is responding to the repulsive vitriol of the Obama campaign by calling them out on promoting “division, anger, and hate.” The Obama campaign is calling Romney an incipient slaver, an insane person, a criminal, and a killer. These are not equivalent. Romney attacks Obama on his coal policy; Obama attacks Romney on having a dog on his car roof decades ago. These are not equivalent.

So, when R² accuses Team Obama of cutting $700 billion from current Medicare recipients, arbitrarily and capriciously, to fund other Obamacare programs, Big Guy’s team says: “yeah, but Romney flew his horse to the Olympics.” See there, they’re equal. Because Romney is a Republican. And Rich. And he abuses his pets.

And if he’d do this to his horse, what would he do to poor brown people? H/T JVR

You should also note, in case you haven’t yet, that in our alternate universe, taking $700 billion out of Medicare coverage for CURRENT participants to fund Obamacare is not partisan; butt offering options for FUTURE Medicare participants in order to prevent it from going belly up is partisan. And racist! That’s all you really need to know.

And where the Gabby Gifford, Dark Knight and Sikh temple shootings were the result of Sarah Palin and the rightwing hate machine, the Family Research Center (FRC) shooting doesn’t even warrant a mention, so apparently there was no hate there, just a nut. Unless you count the fact that the FRC is itself a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And who would know a hate group when they see it better than the SPLC?

And again, please note for your records of postmodern, post racial, post partisan America that the Fort Hoot shooting was a case of workplace violence while the Sikh temple shooting was a hate crime. No-ooo, the FRC shooting was NOT a hate crime. As I just explained, the FRC is a hate group:

Even after the shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council, the Huffington Post can’t stop slamming the pro-family group as a “hate group.” The Huffington Post waited less than 3 hours before publishing an article which complained about “the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center deems a hate group.”

Therefore, any retaliation against said “hate group” is deemed to be a case of legal stand-your-ground self-defense.

Okay then, I guess that’s enough philosophical political science education for one day.  There’s a lot more subject matter to cover and I’ll try to do that as the campaign season heats up.

For now though, let me wrap up with a little good news:  TOTUS’ Triumphant Return! 

Although frankly I was a lot more comfortable when he stuck to scrolling words, just words. This new role makes me feel a tad insecure.

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Look Ma, no Teleprompter!

 

Romney enters the TOTUS-free zone

I’m not sure what to make of this:

 

Mitt Romney’s notes for a speech at Palacio De Los Jugos in Miami, Florida.

I mean, Romney writes his own notes! By hand!  In a notebook? Who does that any more?

OMG!!

 Paul Ryan’s handwritten notes for speech in Waukesha

Not Paul Ryan too!?

What’s TOTUS going to do, then?

Reflections?

Butt that’s MY job!  Where does that leave me?

Okay, deep breath. I guess I’m getting a little ahead of myself…butt yikes! This could be huge. Take yesterday for instance; Mitt just went out there and whacked Big Guy and Little Joe from here to Chicago and back - without TOTUS, just a couple of notes! On the palm of his hand.

Wow! Imagine speaking eloquently with just a few notes. The last time someone did that, Jimmy went down for the count. Remember?

“They tell us we must learn to live with less, and teach our children that their lives will be less full and prosperous than ours have been; that the America of the coming years will be a place where — because of our past excesses — it will be impossible to dream and make those dreams come true.

I don't believe that. And, I don't believe you do either. That is why I am seeking the presidency.

I cannot and will not stand by and see this great country destroy itself.

 Our leaders attempt to blame their failures on circumstances beyond their control, on false estimates by unknown, unidentifiable experts who rewrite modern history in an attempt to convince us our high standard of living, the result of thrift and hard work, is somehow selfish extravagance which we must renounce as we join in sharing scarcity.

I don't agree that our nation must resign itself to inevitable decline, yielding its proud position to other hands. I am totally unwilling to see this country fail in its obligation to itself and to the other free peoples of the world.”

Ronald Reagan, 1979

 

Yep, Ronnie used to write up his own notes by hand too. In fact, Ronaldus Magnus was thinking and writing – yes, at the same time – constantly; even though the Media used to talk about how stupid he was. They even accused him of not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time, remember? Boy, were they ever wrong!

About Ronnie too.

Butt I tell you what, let’s not talk about this anymore, okay? It’s starting to make people nervous, so I think we’ll change the subject. And talk about something else. Like slavery and shackles, or wind power…or how about this proven diversionary tactic:

Dogs. Yes siree! Dogs are back on the table. Metaphorically speaking of course.

“After sanctimoniously complaining about making a ‘big election about small things,’ President Obama continues to embarrass himself and diminish his office with his un-presidential behavior.” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams

Because we prefer talking about dog cuts

(h/t: Gateway Pundit)

instead of Medicare cuts.

In summary then:

A Teleprompter Communicator:

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Or, a Great Communicator:

“But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation — from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense.”

Ronald Reagan, on being dubbed “The Great Communicator”

Choose wisely.

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If you build it, they will come. But wait! You didn’t build that!

Where, exactly, were our stylists? What do they think they’re on the Big Black Bus for, if not to avoid unfortunate photo ops like this one of Big Guy out standing in his field?

You sure don’t need me to point out the failed optics of this unfortunate metaphor:

Four More years? Of this?

As our War Planner succinctly put it “How utterly metaphoric is this shot of our clueless POTUS standing in a drought-stricken Iowa corn field trying to ignite the magic of four years ago.”

And speaking of  stylists…

and unfortunate photo ops:

“My guns are bigger than your legs.”

Which one of the ladies-in-waiting thought that this tie-dyed “floral” apron dress with the .50 caliber ammo boob belt would show well on national TV? And which of our brilliant public relations and new media specialists thought that pairing Lady M’s statuesque physique up against a petite teenaged gymnast would be a good idea? I’d like to see their papers.

The unfortunate matchup made Lady M cranky enough that she couldn’t help butt lash out at poor 80 pound Gabby when she told Jay she celebrated her 2 gold medal victories by enjoying a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin. That was entirely out of character. I mean, how many times has Mo herself told us that an “occasional” treat is okay? And if winning double Olympic golds isn’t an occasion, what is?

After all, it’s not as if Gabby said she had a Shake burger, fries, chocolate shake and a diet Pepsi like Lady M always does when she thinks she’s earned a little treat. So that’s how I could tell little Gabby really got under her skin.

I could snap you in two and eat you in two bites.

Sheeze! We really need to hold a staff meeting before things get any further out of hand. It’s not as if things aren’t already tense enough around here.

As I first reported on Saturday, the R² team really got into Big Guy’s kitchen. Now it looks like they’re crawled right into his bread box.

Well, see for yourself; this just came in overnight:

 

MOTUS --

Congressman Paul Ryan is the poster boy for the extreme Republican leadership in a Congress whose overall approval rating is 12 percent. His plan to dismantle Medicare is deeply unpopular with the general public, and especially undecided voters.

You might be wondering why the hell Romney picked this guy. But this is a strategic pick that carries real danger for us.

Here's the calculation: Mitt Romney doesn't need or expect Paul Ryan to convince even one undecided voter to cast their ballot for him. That's not what he's on the ticket for. He's there to reassure and inspire ultraconservative ideologues and corporate interests that they will have one of their own a heartbeat from the presidency.

That means tens or even hundreds of millions more dollars for the Romney campaign and the array of outside groups supporting him -- and if current trends hold, more than 90 percent of that money will be spent on TV ads -- lying, distorting and trashing Barack Obama. Those ads will have more impact on undecided voters than anything Paul Ryan himself does or says.

Mitt Romney is convinced that picking Paul Ryan is a great investment for him. And his campaign is already touting the pledges and donations they've received as a result, with fundraising events planned for this week.

We're already being outraised, and we can't afford to fall further behind. Our records show that you're still waiting to make your first online donation -- now is the time.

Please donate $5 or more today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Romney-Ryan (I HOPE I didn’t screw that “donate” link up)

More soon.

(Howdy) Messina

Wow! Early August and we’re already pulling out the Howitzers. Medi-scare? Check. Ideologue? Check. Outraised by the evil rightwing attack machine? Well, technically, no. 

Butt we do find it advantageous to be the underdog so we’ll keep beating that horse till it drops dead. It fit’s perfectly with our class warfare meme, and throwing in the “ideologue” tag was just inspired; it sounds so…villainous when slapped on an evil Republican.

Plus, it allows us to start lying attacking on a whole new front. For example, now Big Guy can accuse Ryan of holding up the farm aid bill even though he voted for it, before sending it along to the Senate, where it’s currently being held hostage by the Dem’s.

Which brings us full circle - back to Iowa. Where we had a few beers with the folks (h/t: Bill O’Reilly):

and enjoyed a shave ice (sno-cones, as they’re called in fly-over, where it snows)

…before reentering our Field of Dreams. “Right this way sir, I’m sure there’s an alternate universe in here somewhere.”

Looking for the secret trap door that will take us back to the future.

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