No market is too small for the regulators. Gotta make work for all them new government employees, don’t you know. Next, they’ll go after the lemonaid stands. Can’t have kids growing up to be capitalists, now can we?
Rand — did you see that film clip of the President’s radio address on the subject?
Mr. Obama is a regular guy, and he can joke around when he wants to, but in the video version of the address, he had this pained look on his face as if he hadn’t passed a thing in 5 days. Then he gives this “litany of the bad vegetables.”
“In 2006 . . . it was . . . SPINACH. In 2008 . . . (the ellipses are the timing pauses of the speech, the bolding, plosive emphasis in those words) . . . PEPPERS, and POSSIBLY TOMATOES. This year . . . PEANUTS.”
I know that while rare, food poisoning is a serious business for the people affected. On the other hand, we have a world financial crisis, millions without jobs in America, the Taliban is developing tactics to kill our soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan in ever increasing numbers, Iran may already have The Bomb.
With all of this going on, the President uses the Bully Pulpit to do what, to alert the American People to the ongoing crisis with the safety of the vegetable supply. My wife and I saw the clip on the TV news and laughed out loud.
I know people write LOL in their postings, not when they found something risible, only when they think you should find something funny because they are earnest about their opinion. No, we actually found the Vegetables in Crisis speech funnier than and SNL skit — if Saturday Night Live could only do a spoof as good as the real thing.
Our inside joke of the definitive Obama impression (on the level of JFK talking about “Cuber” and Nixon with any of a number of verbal tics) is now “In 2006 . . . it was . . . SPINACH. In 2008 . . . , the bolding, plosive emphasis in those words) . . . PEPPERS, and POSSIBLY TOMATOES. This year . . . PEANUTS.”
No one else thinks this is risible (yeah Jim, we all know about President Bush’s sly grin and about everything about him was self parody in the estimation of all correct-thinking people, so you don’t need to comment on this).
But over time as the President’s welcome wears on people, as it does eventually for every President, I think I know which direction the wags and impressionists will go.
No market is too small for the regulators. Gotta make work for all them new government employees, don’t you know. Next, they’ll go after the lemonaid stands. Can’t have kids growing up to be capitalists, now can we?
Rand — did you see that film clip of the President’s radio address on the subject?
Mr. Obama is a regular guy, and he can joke around when he wants to, but in the video version of the address, he had this pained look on his face as if he hadn’t passed a thing in 5 days. Then he gives this “litany of the bad vegetables.”
“In 2006 . . . it was . . . SPINACH. In 2008 . . . (the ellipses are the timing pauses of the speech, the bolding, plosive emphasis in those words) . . . PEPPERS, and POSSIBLY TOMATOES. This year . . . PEANUTS.”
I know that while rare, food poisoning is a serious business for the people affected. On the other hand, we have a world financial crisis, millions without jobs in America, the Taliban is developing tactics to kill our soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan in ever increasing numbers, Iran may already have The Bomb.
With all of this going on, the President uses the Bully Pulpit to do what, to alert the American People to the ongoing crisis with the safety of the vegetable supply. My wife and I saw the clip on the TV news and laughed out loud.
I know people write LOL in their postings, not when they found something risible, only when they think you should find something funny because they are earnest about their opinion. No, we actually found the Vegetables in Crisis speech funnier than and SNL skit — if Saturday Night Live could only do a spoof as good as the real thing.
Our inside joke of the definitive Obama impression (on the level of JFK talking about “Cuber” and Nixon with any of a number of verbal tics) is now “In 2006 . . . it was . . . SPINACH. In 2008 . . . , the bolding, plosive emphasis in those words) . . . PEPPERS, and POSSIBLY TOMATOES. This year . . . PEANUTS.”
No one else thinks this is risible (yeah Jim, we all know about President Bush’s sly grin and about everything about him was self parody in the estimation of all correct-thinking people, so you don’t need to comment on this).
But over time as the President’s welcome wears on people, as it does eventually for every President, I think I know which direction the wags and impressionists will go.