Comments on The Odds Are One: "Yes, God forbid that while talking to 60,000 publ...

backwords??? Ay yi yi.

2008-01-21T06:13:00.000-08:00

backwords???

Ay yi yi.

LOTR. Or, alternatively, the planet from which Mo...

2008-01-21T06:07:00.000-08:00

LOTR. Or, alternatively, the planet from which Mork was from. Man, I shouldn't know this stuff.

And I think what's key is how one's words interact with someone else's. Call it conversation, call it debate (though not the kinds of debate we have these days).

And, also, postmodernism has made us skeptical of the ability of words to inspire us (or maybe that's just my stupid degree). Maybe if Obama spoke his words sideways, or backwords, or integrated foreign words without defining them, or some combination therein, I would be like, "Oh yeah, I totally get what he's saying and I'm with him." I mean not really. Maybe he should use drawings.

Also, it's 6 a.m.

fronesis, i'd dump everyone else and vote for you ...

2008-01-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

fronesis, i'd dump everyone else and vote for you in a heartbeat (and i know you to be crazy). mita and i indeed spent many carpooling hours this semester considering whether making up gore/whedon 08 bumper stickers was a crazy idea or a brilliant one.

and i don't know lilita, but i didn't think the edwards thing as offensive as everyone else seems to have. he was talking out his ass for the cameras as one must when one is running for president. if someone had asked me after 65,345, 677 hours of campaigning what i thought about HRC's "emotional moment," i would myself have burst into tears from sheer frustration at the question. so while, sure, obama's answer was better, i felt like, for instance, Broadsheet's response was, um, insane. Yes we love his voting record, his politics, his ideas, his supporters, his staff, and his positions, but he said this semi-critical thing about HRC based on something that seems gender-y (Broadsheet's -- and everyone else's -- fit here surely, but not Edwards's), and we are actually going to put a photo of an ork next to him. (okay, i paraphrased.) are they four? and is that not absurdly reductive and petty and point-missing and pandering and little girl-y? (btw, what the hell is an ork anyway? is this some kind of star wars ref i am missing?)

I don't know which West Wing episode it is off the...

2008-01-10T03:04:00.000-08:00

I don't know which West Wing episode it is off the top of my head. I do know the Indigo Girls song to which Lil refers, but that's certainly too easy.

And in response to your post: there IS a difference between Obama making you swoon with his words and some guy in Oklahama who thinks he can relate to Bush. It's this: political leaders are supposed to fucking LEAD! They should inspire us. They should show us their vision for the country and the world. They should bring people together into a collective whose actions can bring about genuine change. You need words of some sort in order to bring people together in this way.

And this isn't just about intelligence. I don't think Reagan was a genius, but unlike GWB, Reagan DID inspire (some) people and he did use words to bring people together. This isn't to say that I would have voted for Reagan, but I'm fine with saying that in terms of being a political actor and leader, he was a hell of a lot 'better' than Bush.

And, for the record, I'd dump everyone else and vote for Joss Whedon in a heartbeat.

"Galileo's head was on the block; The crime was l...

2008-01-09T14:40:00.000-08:00

"Galileo's head was on the block; The crime was looking up the truth." Too easy, mtg. But your point is a good one, especially when our man Edwards' contribution to speaking for the week has been "I think what we need in a commander in chief is strength and resolve" in reaction to Clinton's tearing up. Disappointing, very disappointing.