Don’t Look Now, But…
By Mitch Berg
I was listening to Keri Miller’s “Midmorning” show on MPR last Friday. In the second hour, she was interviewing some sixties’ folk-scene retread (the program archive seems to have left the hour blank).
Miller asked – with a face that sounded straight (I’m paraphrasing very closely): “Now that Obama has been elected president, do you think American people are ready for the sacrifices he asked of them?”
I almost swerved into an oncoming car.
“WHAT SACRIFICES did he “ask” of the American people?” I yelled at the radio, not quite remembering that I didn’t have a mike in front of me. “When did Obama talk about sacrifice? He couldn’t even articulate the sacrifices he was going to “ask” the American people in the debates, for crying out loud? Five’ll getcha ten the typical Obama voter is thinking “Yippee! My mortgage and gas will get paid!”
Seirously – what “sacrifices” did The One “ask” of anyone?
December 1st, 2008 at 7:16 am
…probably freedom of speech.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
At the same time B. Hussein Obama was talking about the sacrifices we’d all have to make his campaign website promised big tax cuts to anyone who makes less than $250k/yr.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:14 am
JRoosh quipped: “…probably freedom of speech.”
A little ironic, no? What with you censoring Angryclown on the “Obammy” thread and all.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:37 am
Obama didn’t really ask for sacrifices, but his wife suggested that Obama wasn’t going to let us do certain things, if I remember correctly. She then disappeared for a time, appearing mainly at events like the grand opening of a Photomat in northern Virginia.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:05 am
Let me check the entire library of his campaign speeches:
Hope change hope change
The waters will receed and the earth cool
We are the ones we have been waiting for
I have been in all 57 states
A smoked some weed and did a little blow
I promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (sic)
That’s it!! He wants us to sacrifice our first born for him. Planned Parenthood will assist.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
I believe he did warn that we’d no longer be able to drive SUVs, eat what we wanted to, or control the temperature inside our homes.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
To be fair he and Joe Biden did ask “the rich” to sacrifice by paying higher taxes because it’s “patriotic”…
December 1st, 2008 at 9:57 am
A little ironic, no?
Actually, no, since Roosh isn’t a body of government.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Certainly our credulity has been laid upon the altar.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:26 am
This list’s comment and email policy is posted in a document which, itself, is scarcely less comprehensive than the Constitution to which those who cry “censorship” appeal: the policy page.
Read, absorb, enjoy.