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jhicks85 · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: SNL Mocking Obama

This is too funny, and not a good sign for The Prez...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/04/snl_mocks_obamas_lack_of_accomplishments.html

When you're the President, and a Democrat, and SNL is mocking your lack of accomplishments in the first 8 months in office, things can't be going well.
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TonyS82 · Poobah Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 842 Location: Boston

Welcome back...gets kinda quiet over here at certain times of the year...but with FaceTwitter...things have really quieted down. But still getting new members.
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Carolyn Frusciante82 · Blue Mud Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 825 Location: Denmark

It is very quiet here!

Jon, I bet it is an honor to be made fun of on SNL.

I take it your love for BO hasn´t grown, but is it worse than you thought?
US politics is hard to understand, but isn´t it hard to get things accomplished, the very first year for any president, when there is a serious recession. No one expects things fixed so soon do they?
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MrBill82 · Wind Up Merchant Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 1580

May not be an honor, but I'm betting it's expected as SNL has pretty much always operated on the Abbie Hoffman mantra that "Sacred cows make the best hamburger."

Plus, there's nothing wrong with criticizing your leader, even if you support him, if you don't agree with him. Simply being on the same team doesn't imply universal support if their actions need a good and honest critique. It doesn't make you disloyal to the party to point out if your party's leader is straying. I'm often surprised at the "fiddling while Rome burns" approach taken by party loyalists. Ultimately self-defeating. An unexamined political life is not worth living...to paraphrase Socrates.

Carolyn Frusciante82 · Blue Mud Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 825 Location: Denmark

Agreed. I like OB, but thought it was really a funny satire.
I often watch The Daily Show, and they too did some pretty funny scetches about OB.

Socrates, said it well, but I could change it a wee bit, to, " A life unexamined is not worth living".
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MrBill82 · Wind Up Merchant Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 1580

TonyS82 · Poobah Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 842 Location: Boston

You mean there really ARE philosophy majors out there? So-Crates would be happy to hear that...or WOULD he?
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Carolyn Frusciante82 · Blue Mud Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 825 Location: Denmark

I remember learning the phrase that goes something like...I am smart, because I know that I know nothing...
I live by that phrase, my good excuse for knowing nothing and still thinking I am smart.

Plus in my line of work, we are always told to ask questions, the Socrates way. There´s no way like the Socrates way!

Found these phrases, and actually recognize some from a far away time when we had to philosofy in school. ( is that a made up word?)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Socrates

Found your phrase too Mr. Bill
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TonyS82 · Poobah Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 842 Location: Boston

And what great philosopher said this?

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''
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jhicks85 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:48 am Post subject:

TonyS82 · Poobah Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 842 Location: Boston

Whoa...did I just see a cyber-eraser fly by your head?!
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jhicks85 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:06 am Post subject:

Hmmm...thought I felt something go by... Laughing

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