Comments on: Real Americans

By: Robert Waldmann

Robert Waldmann — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:47:10 +0000

Judis is obviously right that Obama’s life experience is not similar to that of working class Americans. For example, he lived in a house without a flush toilette for a while in Indonesia.

Judis has odd thoughts about race. He also has odd thoughts about class. It doesn’t appear to have much to do with what your father did (divorce your mother when you were two in Obama case and President the USA in Bush’s case).

Not to be condescending or anything, but I think that Judis is saying that the average Joe can’t relate to Obama, because Obama knows a whole hell of a lot more about all sorts of things than the average Joe.

Bush was a regular guy in spite of his class background, because he was as ignorant about public policy as were people whose job was not to execute public policy.

Obama is upper middle class in spite of his very disadvantaged class background, because he knows a huge amount about public policy.

Judis is completely ignoring the dictionary definition of “class” in his post.

I mean at least he didn’t claim that Obama is White. That’s the sort of category error he makes when discussing Obama’s class.

By: ch2

ch2 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:19:57 +0000

It don’t matter !
I still stand by the “The world is so full of stupid that you are still a rocket scientist…” part.

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:10:18 +0000

You think a preview feature’s gonna do that?

(sorry, it was kind of a hanging curve)

By: The Editors

The Editors — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:27:47 +0000

For the record: I went to state college. Not one of the better ones, either. This probably should have been my first clue.

By: ch2

ch2 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:57:29 +0000

May I just say: “I’m glad you’re back, Editors” ?

As for the “I can’t believe I went to MIT but I don’t feel smart” trip: get over it quick.

The world is so full of stupid that you are still a rocket scientist….

Seriously, you got the degree, you did your time, you drank from the firehose. Live long and PROPSer.

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:55:51 +0000

“John B. Judis:”

Retard can’t even spell Judas right.

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:54:47 +0000

“…but I have been really busy and so haven’t had time to peer into the hearts of statistically significant sample of voters and divine their true motives.”

This is at least an unwitting contradiction or an outright lie. If you were *really* busy you would be cobbling with princely aplomb another KK instead of man-nursing your burbling offspring, and nothing peers into the hearts of statistically significant sample(s) of voters and divine(s) their true motives as well as a KK spectacularooza.

So I deduce you’re either fucking off or preparing wonders for us all.

How can you not?

(Brando as Kurtz voice) The temptation, the temptation…

By: grandlaff

grandlaff — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:44:44 +0000

lol, second the preview request.

By: grandlaff

grandlaff — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:43:40 +0000

What is it with these people? I’m working class and work among working class. The only white coworkers who dislike Obama are the ones who tend to be racist/homophobic/xenophobic. In other words, the ones who voted for Sarah Starbursts. And they’re unreachable, not because Obama is an elitist, but because they’re morans. You knew that.

But Judis is right. Obama should do something to show he’s po’ folk, jes’ like us. Maybe take up the jug. (keep your eyes on the guy in the top hat)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=whister's+jug+band&search_type=&aq=f

By: peorgie tirebiter

peorgie tirebiter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:31:37 +0000

Off topic: Please give us a preview feature so that I don't continually make myself look like an idiot. Thanks.