The President is right now at a $5,000+ per plate dinner in San Francisco, telling Americans we have lost our ambition and imagination. The police across the bay in Oakland are right now tear-gassing protesters. One feels an irony here, or a gap perhaps.
25 comments
October 25, 2011 at 8:42 pm
ari
One feels sick and angry, actually.
October 25, 2011 at 8:43 pm
ari
Maybe also an irony. I can’t tell. What with the feeling sick and angry, I mean.
October 25, 2011 at 8:49 pm
eric
One senses an opportunity being missed.
October 25, 2011 at 9:09 pm
ari
Give credit where credit is due: this president is something of a past master at missing opportunities.
October 25, 2011 at 9:25 pm
eric
Missed opportunities are the shekinah of this administration.
October 25, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Cecily
I do like the idea of weather reporters storming the mainstream media and saving the day. Or at least making it clear that the day needed to be saved.
October 25, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Vance Maverick
According to the Guardian, on Leno (recorded before the visit, and before the outrage) he at least discussed Occupy. Can he really have confined his remarks, though, to equating it to the Tea Party as a response to the individual frustration of not having a job?
In the meantime, the CBO has come out with a concise summary of the advancement of the 1% since the end of the Great Moderation.
October 26, 2011 at 3:30 am
1000 Names of Vishnu
Proper PC perspectives from EotAW, back!
wow
October 26, 2011 at 5:46 am
eric
True, that. The coverage should emphasize the kitten negligence of the protesters and the kitten solicitude of the police.
October 26, 2011 at 8:28 am
Vance Maverick
Hey, that was fast — only a day of nostalgic welcome from old commenters who found you in their RSS feeds before the first contentless drive-by insult.
October 26, 2011 at 9:10 am
ari
I’m surprised the honeymoon lasted that long, Vance. This is the internet.
October 26, 2011 at 9:11 am
ari
Also, I’m pretty sure that’s the ToS.
October 26, 2011 at 9:22 am
eric
The Internet is highly efficient.
October 26, 2011 at 9:27 am
1000 Names of Vishnu
And we’re pretty sure yr the same Trotskyite snitch you always were–got yr GREs handy? Deep thought for today–should Stanford U alums–the school of Feinstein, Rice, Schultz, google pigs, HP, Rauchway etc– be allowed to teach in CA?/discuss
October 26, 2011 at 9:39 am
ari
Yeah, like I said, that’s the ToS.
October 26, 2011 at 10:51 am
J. Otto Pohl
You will have to explain this one. Where is the irony? I do not recall any police suppression of large demonstrations under Carter, but I was in grade school at the time and not paying attention to such things.
October 26, 2011 at 1:28 pm
david
I’m British – I’m struggling to understand the trolling. Pls to translate?
October 26, 2011 at 2:15 pm
eric
He doesn’t like us.
October 26, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Vance Maverick
One irony is easy to locate in Eric’s summary — the protesters may not have a program, or a practical one, but they do have both ambition and imagination. The word “malaise” may be associated with Carter, but I took it here as a simple description of Eric’s feeling, at seeing an opportunity for leadership — taking up a popular cause which could be good for both party and country — go unseized.
(And don’t British blogs have trolls?)
October 26, 2011 at 3:47 pm
ari
It may be that the david is wondering, with good reason, about “ToS”. In which case, good sir, I am referring to the Troll of Sorrow, aka the ToS.
October 26, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Vance Maverick
Ah, it was I who needed the explanation, and the reminder. I was wondering whether the Terms of Service for the Internet itself stipulated some number of unlovably eccentric trolls per blog.
October 27, 2011 at 2:05 am
david
Thanks Ari… and Vance, “contentless drive-by insult” was pretty funny!
Good to see EotAW back, btw..
October 27, 2011 at 2:27 am
J. Otto Pohl
I do not think British blogs have trolls. I am based in Ghana a former British colony and have no trolls on my blog. I suspect this is because of the British colonial influence.
October 27, 2011 at 7:22 am
david
Actually I thought “Trotskyite snitch” sounded very British indeed. I thought Eric & Ari might be keeping their past memberships of Militant Tendency from us.
October 28, 2011 at 1:13 am
Dave
Many British blogs are run by trolls, cf. Lenin’s Tomb, Harry’s Place. Crooked Timber is an odd association of people who both are and aren’t trolls as the mood takes them. Guido Fawkes has raised trolling to an art-form on the Right.
Great to have you guys back, BTW – as announced on HNN, fame and glory!