Getting my schadenfreude on

[wombat_socho]

As Bruce Schneier used to say in his StippleAPA days, "No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up."

Who could have expected Barack Obama to demonstrate the truth of the "Half Honky, All Donkey" shibboleth with such epic jackassery? I think Ace summed it up best, although Don Surber is a touch more charitable, and The Bride somewhat more in the analytical mode.

Actually, I can't say I'm really all that surprised, or even shocked. At my age, I've had plenty of opportunities to hear what the well-off liberal Anglo will say when they don't think any of the untermenschenproles are in the room. It's provided me with some really satisfying opportunities over the years to make white people turn paler than Michael Jackson. To paraphrase Colonel Kilgore, "I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. It smells like...pwnage."

Comment of the day: "Pennsylvanians should be thrilled to be explained by one condescending prick to a collection of other condescending pricks at a mansion in San Francisco." (tanstaafl @Jules Crittenden)

UPDATE: OH SWEET BLEEDING JESUS I'M GOING TO HAVE A HERNIA
2008: The Blazing Saddles Election! (Transterrestrial Musings)

(Instapundit "...a perfect storm of phoniness" and Jules Crittenden)

Comments

Re: a touch tangental

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

And with this kopeck you skillfully drive the ruble straight into the ground.

Re: a touch tangental

[qob.livejournal.com]

Dang. I took the bait. This thread is about his comment, not his name. The fact that he feels that religion is something people who are bitter and hurt fail back (like a drug? an opiate?) rather than something that fulfills them and makes them better people. His statement was also rife with hypocrisy when he (after campaigning AGAINST free trade initiatives) he said these bitter people "cling to...anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
This is after he expressed his opposition to NAFTA (while his camp reassured Canadians he was OK with it) and voted against the Columbia Free Trade agreement which would give Americans jobs and benefit a key American Ally (that Hugo Chavez is currently working against to topple)

See this doesn't look like a new kinda politician, just the same old two-faced crap.

Re: a touch tangental

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

He's a Democrat from the south side of Chicago. What more do you need to know, really?