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07/10/09
Can we expect some pics of Biden with dicks MSPaint'd on them? An article asking Palin to "an hero"?
07/10/09
In addition to this photo that he has up, he also in the past two days has had two pieces on "ZOMG!! Scandal!! Typos on the Obama press releases and website!"
Seriously??
07/10/09
To me it kind of looks like he's looking a bit, but I just have no problem with it. Far more upsetting is the news coverage of it and how either way they're trying to exonerate him or condemn him, as if those were the only two options.
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"Have you seen our wives?"
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That said, the public morality thing is highly inconsistent in the United States and really damaging, it seems to me. It's like you guys are in this weird abusively worshipful relationship with the politicians you admire, which in real life is known as "setting yourselves up for a fall." People are people.
I don't know what I think about what it means to govern - I mean, there's a world of difference between Lewinsky-Clinton (in which one was presumably still a functional governor) and Mark Sanford hiking the Argentinian trail without telling anyone where he was going. But obvs the Sanford case proves that, umm, obssessive romantic relationships can affect your ability to govern. So there's that.
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In general I think our issue in the US is having moral standards that are not reflective of the generality of human behavior, but I suppose that's what moral standards are- an attempt to "improve" upon on and otherwise subvert natural inclinations in the interest of the greater good. Why we feel that politicians as a group are somehow better at sticking to those high standards has always been beyond me, but we seem to have the general idea that if someone is really good at one thing- acting, speaking, governing other people, writing, whatever- they must be good at everything, including self-control. Which obviously is not the case.
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And I completely agree about the poor girl.
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Totally -- even though their affair was consensual, she was his employee, which puts the whole thing in a different moral ballpark than mere adultery.
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And Sarkozy looks like---in the photo---that he's smirking at Obama looking at the girl . Then it turns out he's checking her out himself.
Even your basic point-and-shoot digital cameras shoot film at thirty frames per second. I've caught lightning flashes that speed, but just barely. It's amazing what one thirtieth of a second can reveal. I got a picture of lighting slicing through a house without doing any damage. I didn't even know it was there till I went through my frames, looking for lightning.
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I think it's far more telling of those who are reporting this as some sort of event than it is of President Obama. I guess it's sort of good news that they have to distort the truth to even come up with this about him.
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Hmm...this makes me wonder: maybe all those hot Clive Owen pics are misrepresented. Maybe after each second-long suave look, he starts twitching and foaming at the mouth!
Nah. That would still be hot.
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However, I can't really argue with this line: Is it so unreasonable to lose at least a little respect for a public figure when he can't keep it in his pants?
No, I don't think it's unreasonable at all.