A Modest Proposal to the Obama campaign regarding Deviations from their Holy Writ.
For it is quite confusing for us poor heathen to keep track.
By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | Giving Them the Business | Obamabus | Obamafiles | Obamaseal — Comments (21) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
As Hot Air has noted, Governor Richardson today contradicted the established wisdom of the Obama campaign today:
He not only agreed that we need to drill more - I distinctly heard him include the Gulf Coast in that - he actually spoke out against corn-based ethanol! This, of course, is a violation of the Words of Obama, who is both against Gulf drilling and is beloved of the domestic ethanol lobby.
At least he is... today. Maybe. It's hard to tell; after all, he was for public financing, talking to dictators without preconditions, and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he suddenly wasn't. So it's hard to say whether this is rank heresy or simply the announcement of a new Obama prophecy. Clearly, this is only going to go on being a problem for the rest of this election season, so we need some way to distinguish between the two. Fortunately, I have come up with a solution that should work quite well.
Read on.
Have you ever done a variation of the Conch Shell rule, Senator Obama?
You probably have, but let me explain it anyway. When a group of unruly children are brought together for some sort of meeting, it can be difficult for them to settle down and let each person talk. So you get an item - we used a conch shell, hence the name - and the rule was, whoever had the conch shell could talk, and nobody else. If you wanted to talk, you had to gesture for the conch shell, and the kid who had it would be glared at if he kept it too long. Works pretty good, actually.
Now, you don't have a conch shell. But I am given to understand that you have this:
"OBAMASEAL ACTIVATED!"
...which you aren't really using for anything anymore. So, we recycle it as a sort of unspoken sign of your approval. Let's say that one of your disciples comes out and says something sensible, something obvious, or something else that contradicts your previous pronouncements on a particular topic. If he is wearing your Obamaseal:
"DING!"
...then we'll know that he speaks your words, and it is time for the faithful to get out their erasers and rewrite history so that you were saying that all along. But if he is not wearing your Obamaseal:
"BZZZZT!"
...then obviously he has fallen into heresy, poor fellow, and must be then ritually sacrificed by being thrown under the Obamabus:
"STOP! OBAMABUS!"
Does this work for you, Senator Obama? Because I think that this would save us all valuable time all around...
Moe Lane
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***JUST SAY NO!***
...or does Governor Richardson look like a guy I went to college with?
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"Let's say that one of your disciples comes out and says something sensible, something obvious, or something else that contradicts your previous pronouncements on a particular topic."
Good one Moe :)
Incase you missed it Moe, Hotair already as reports of Richardson being seen walking towards the highway into oncoming traffic, he's dodged a few but it looks like he's looking for something to dive head first under.
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Read Golding much?
It would be good for Governor Richardson to remember what happened to Piggy and the Conch.....
I think this is the first Lord of the Flies reference I have ever seen on RS.
Bravo.
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So many metaphors to be mined there.
I’m sure to see a chance to reference Pincer Martin at some point (sad as that one is).
After all, there’s so much self-delusion in politics.
Same with Catcher in the Rye: didn't have to read them in English class, and since there were no exploding starships in either I felt no real desire to read them on my own.
Saw the Simpsons mocking of the first one, though.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
– LOTF is a really good read, albeit dark.
I also gravitated to Heinlein (et al) whilst coming up; but many of the classics really are so (which makes it all the more sad to see them neglected by our educational system in favor of more PC “classics” involving bestiality and such).
But I’m figuring that Conch children’s game you mentioned in your post was likely based on LOTF.
Outside of Conrad and Hemingway who were damn depressing, but good writers. The only other ones I liked were Somerset Maugham and Willa Cather.
At least American classics. Some of the Europeans were better, especially Alexander Dumas. But almost all old literature was unbelievably downbeat and depressing.
Angst, Insanity, sexual perversion, and anarchist politics just about sums up the nineteenth century.
And don't even get me started on unreadable crap like Hesse and Joyce.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Bill Richardson is quite possibly the stupidest and most blinkered individual ever to serve as Secretary of Energy in the United States. Just last week he was on the Sunday Morning talk shows telling the world how the United States would solve its energy problems with windpower and solar.
He knows what a huge lie that is.
Even people in the windpower industry themselves will tell you that installing domestic windpower generators doesn't pay off for a decade. Hansen from NASA wants to rip up the streets and dredge the land of America to bury low-loss electrical cables -- at enormous expense -- so that wind and solar power can compete with central power station production.
And windpower and solar are fundamentally anti-democratic: there are only certain places in the country where they can even work hypothetically, and you can find them on brightly colored maps produced by the NREL. Only a tiny fraction of the people in this country could ever use windpower -- even if it was universally adopted and everyone swallowed the upfront costs -- to produce electricity.
This is why people should be watching where Bill Richardson buys real estate over the next few years: my educated guess is that Bill and Frenz will be working extra hard to buy properties where they can receive a return on their investment in the next 20 years.
Even the "success" stories from the windpower industry are filled with the caveats that the production technology doesn't pay for itself in a reasonable timespan, and costs at least $6,000 - $10,000 up front. Most states, even the most aggressive that are pushing "alternative" energy like Massachusetts, only give homeowners and businesses a tax deduction of something like 20% on their state taxes. And the reliability is strictly dependent on the location of the turbine.
So:
1) It's more expensive
2) It's antidemocratic
3) It's wholly dependent on location, which not everyone can have.
In other words, it's a boondoggle. And Bill Richardson, former Secretary of Energy, has gone on television recently and said that it's the future. That should tell everyone something about voting for Obama in the next election.
In a brochure produced by the windpower industry itself was basically an admission that windpower is a throwback to the days prior to the electrification of the United States based on central power stations. They want us to move back to the 1930's, except with much more expensive technology.
Small wind turbines were commonplace on farms and ranches across the Midwestern United States before the advent of rural electrification programs. Wind generators powered lights, radios and kitchen appliances in far-flung reaches of the country, offering rural families most of the conveniences of modern urban life.
They essentially admit that wind turbines are railroad-era, pre-electrification technology. And this is what Bill Richardson thinks the United States should do next.
Thanks, Al Gore!
Ah, but you missed it. Richardson wasn't so much advocating a "new" position for Obama, nor was he "contradicting" Obama. He was merely demonstrating to Obama how easily he, too, can say something that seems to contradict the campaign line but which is really only the "real understanding" or the "unerlying true message" of what Obama really means if you would just pay attention to him. Richardson, in effect, if showing Obama that he can be just as quick and easy with the chameleon act as the dear leader himself... And thus he hopes to give Obama the perfect reason to make him the veep.
Just think: in the debates (however many and whatever format they take) there can be three participants -- McCain vs. Obama vs. Obama; and [GOP veep nom] vs. Richardson vs. Richardson. If nothing else ("tragic" comes to mind) it would at least be funny.
"Do not fear, only believe." (Mark 5:36)
That they know are going to turn out to be lies. They're not calling him on them now so that they won't have the record of them being lies in the future. This is how Leftist democrats work.
That was a blog entry so scrumtrilescent I can barely move...
"Do not fear, only believe." (Mark 5:36)
I still cannot believe that Obama is for this ethanol crap. We all know ethanol....
Bad for environment (emits CO2 from burning, burn forests to make room for corn fields, and the usage of other energy that pollutes to make the ethanol)
Causes food shortages, as shown with the current situation. I certainly don't want to use corn to feed cars instead of humans
corrodes the pipelines, which makes it very difficult to transport
Generally cost-ineffective
therefore i believe that not using ethanol should be more important to the conservative platform
You left out how much groundwater it takes, and how excessive corn agriculture contributes to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico ("the Dead Zone").
I believe that a commitment to the free enterprise system should be more important to the liberal platform.
But at least we agree about ethanol.
"PsychObama, qu'est-ce que c'est?"
To say the least.