Friday, May 23, 2008

On O'Lectures

James Wolcott's Blog: Mahogany Sleigh Bed Heads for the Cliff: Wolcott's Blog: vanityfair.com

"...That was one of the chords Obama struck today in his response to Bush's "Nazi appeaser" accusation before the Israeli Knesset--he firmly, deftly mummy-wrapped Bush and McCain together and dropped them off at the pier. It's rather impressive to see a first-term senator chastise the President of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party as if he were the headmaster and they the ones guilty of infractions unworthy of upperclassmen. That's one of the benefits of having an oratorical voice that sounds tall--it automatically adds height to every utterance, allowing them to drop like acorns and make a nice thunk when they bounce off of the nearest thick skull."

And there's another O'Problem. It seems that every time he criticizes one of the Bush Mafia, he sounds like the preacher who just caught someone else's kids screwing in the poison ivy. If you're gonna complain, let the napalm fly, not the sparklers.

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