This has been all over the place today, but if you haven’t seen it already, it’s worth your time. And if you’re feeling impatient, start watching at the 3-minute mark, when President Obama begins channeling Teddy Roosevelt.
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The Edge of the American West 
22 comments
February 28, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Michael Turner
Up until the 3-minute mark, it was more like he was channeling Hillary. His media managers are probably still trying to get up to speed on YouTube and what it means for politics: that you have to figure out what will make people actually click on what they know is essentially political advertising.
Aside from that, brilliant. “So am I” lapel pins are probably being churned out by the hundreds of thousands in some factory in China as we speak, and not at the behest of the DLC.
March 1, 2009 at 4:33 am
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March 1, 2009 at 9:32 am
Bitchphd
Daaaaaaamn.
March 1, 2009 at 9:39 am
silbey
Anybody remember who gave the invocation at the inauguration?
March 1, 2009 at 9:51 am
JPool
Did anyone else catch his Camp Lejeune speech on Friday? However you feel about the timetable (and I’m pretty comfortable with/resigned to it at this point) I thought the speech itself was pitch perfect.
March 1, 2009 at 9:58 am
Jason B.
. . . I thought the speech itself was pitch perfect.
I agree. I could get used to this kind of competence.
March 1, 2009 at 11:05 am
eric
Ari, why do you hate the Roosevelts? (1) It’s “Theodore”. (2) And I’m pretty sure the person he’s channeling is Franklin D., not Theodore, Roosevelt:
March 1, 2009 at 11:32 am
ari
The FDR comparison was too obvious. I like the soft talk of big sticks. And the people versus the interests, which works for both Ted and Frank.
March 1, 2009 at 11:33 am
ari
By the way, Silbey, everyone loves a gracious winner. (Not that I’m willing to concede your victory, I’ll have you know — because I’m a sore loser.)
March 1, 2009 at 11:46 am
TF Smith
TR, FDR..maybe even some WJB…
A Progressive/Liberal/Populist trifecta…
March 1, 2009 at 11:47 am
human
<3 <3 <3
March 1, 2009 at 11:51 am
eric
Silbey, everyone loves a gracious winner
This is just a setup for another slap in the face.
March 1, 2009 at 1:37 pm
silbey
By the way, Silbey, everyone loves a gracious winner.
Gracious? Them’s fighting words!
and
Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
March 1, 2009 at 4:01 pm
TF Smith
First neo-confederates, then emoticons…
:?
March 1, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Tom Streeter
I love the words, I really do. Now let’s see the deeds.
He does realize the the Republicans are a special interest, right?
March 1, 2009 at 8:28 pm
urbino
For some reason, I seem to be a good deal less whelmed by this than most.
March 2, 2009 at 9:02 am
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March 3, 2009 at 12:11 pm
TF Smith
Whelmed or underwhelmed, as in I’m too damned shocked to be cynical anymore…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/politics/03legal.html
Is the good professor still a Golden Bear, or is he scholar-in-residence at Chapman U.? And if the later, why are the taxpayers paying his salary?
March 3, 2009 at 1:00 pm
kathy a.
yoo is still on the faculty of UC berkeley. i haven’t been following this closely, but know there is a lot of controversy about his status at cal. his work for the bush administration is widely condemned — but cal is the home of the free speech movement, the U has contractual obligations to yoo, lawyers can and must promote controversial views in appropriate situations, etc. we can all hate on him, but it’s not necessarily a given he should be fired for being a reprehensible human being.
i think one branch of the discussion is coming down to whether yoo behaved unethically in providing legal advice that was so contrary to the law as to be inarguable and indefensible. another branch seems to be exploring his suitability as a role model, scholar, intellectual, representative of the university. but as we want due process for everyone, these thorny questions really cannot be sorted overnight or without diving into the depths of the issues.
i personally hope he is run out on a rail and disgraced. but in a way that affirms the need for due and fair process. we need for those who dream of more fairness and equality, but whose views are unpopular, not to just simply be judged and tossed. the university needs to walk the walk, even with someone who had done repugnant things that have damaged a great many people.
March 3, 2009 at 6:55 pm
TF Smith
Thank you, Kathy, and I agree he should get his day in “academic” court, but as a taxpayer, I do not see a need to provide employment to an avowed Fascist.
Come on, pre-emptively suspending Posse Comtatus to allow military action within the United States? Why didn’t he just cakll it the “Enabling Act” and be done with it…
Ideally, he should be breaking rocks in the hot sun…
March 4, 2009 at 1:50 am
Michael Turner
I do not see a need to provide employment to an avowed Fascist.
An avowed Fascist? Let’s not concede him so much intellectual respectability. It’s the secretive aspects of Yoo’s past complicity in constitutional erosion that’s the really scary part.