Sunday, November 9, 2008

Farewell To D-Bags.

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Black Diaspora said...

I hate to see them go. What will my life be without them?

They filled it with drama, with suspense, and, most of all, with laughter.

What could be more entertaining than a life with two-shots of suspense, and a twist of tragicomedy?

ebw-educated black woman said...

Hilarious! I'm sure there will be huge crowds of people standing outside and cheering on the day Bush & Co. finally move out of the White House. Good riddance!

Ciara said...

My brother was down at the White House the night of Barack's win. They were all yelling 'Goodbye' and 'Good riddance'...singing that "Goodbye" song ...Here in Philly, the Alphas and Kappas were strolling to that song LOL!...People are realizing that Baby Bush is about to step out and that's huge. I'll miss the funny in DC too (even though the Wizards are giving me all the comedy I need....)

vanilla latte said...

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out. I hope Cheney and the rest of the lot have good secret service protection. They're gonna need it.

I'd like to stand at the White House gate and yell "DUCK" as George is leaving...one final chuckle as the worst president in modern day history exits.

MissJay said...

LMAO@ that!

They can take OJ and hide him in that hole Saddam was in and lock it up. I'm so sick of that man!

Serafina said...

Too many people are missing out on Bill Maher's show. To me its even better than the ever popular Daily Show.

When I saw this last night, I chuckled myself to sleep. They completely ruined me by adding OJ to the mix.

Funny stuff.

annelisa said...

Too bad Bill Maher is on HBO (right?). I haven't check into the AB blog in a few weeks and I'm exhausted from week of doorknocking for Obama in NV followed by boyfriend's major surgery 11 days ago, but I'm ELATED to bid farewell to this group of d-bags ('specially the ones in the w-house)!

My little town of Berkeley-hem erupted, election night, into wild celebration in the streets. There's hard work ahead but, thank God, we elected the guy whose gifts may just be great enough to handle it. Until then, every speech by our president elect (that would be Barack Hussein Obama) brings me to tears and I'm enjoying the honeymoon a lot.

My uncle in small-appalachian-town Pennsylvania wrote to me on election night: "I never thought he'd pull off Pa. Maybe there's hope for human kind after all".

the uppity negro said...

meh...

I'm with Chris Matthews: I'm still trying to figure out what Jeremiah Wright said that was erroneous and untruthful.

annelisa said...

I find myself agreeing with uppity. I never heard Rev. Wright say anything especially objectionable. Honestly. The only time he bugged me was during his post-media-blitz moment of would-be-glory when he was basking in his own limelight in a way that seemed egotistical and counter-productive. To his credit, that phase didn't last long.

Overall, I think the worst you could say about him is that he's pretty old school -- and he likes to hear himself talk. But, heck, that goes for a lot of people.

AverageBro said...

@ uppity

I never really disagreed with anything Wright said. The problem is, he waited waaay too long to fess up for himself and defend his own words. It's almost like he allowed the story to grow and fester when he could have simply interceded early on and said "my words are my words, not Barack's" and would have likely short circuited the whole thing.

By letting the story grow, Wright did Obama no favors.

annelisa said...

AB: Great point. Benefit of the doubt: it was a unique and very high-stakes situation. Maybe he was getting conflicting advice? Mabye he thought he was doing no harm? On the other hand, he had those two interviews in a less-than do-no-harm spirit. Seemed to me. He was used to center stage -- on a smaller stage.

Marbles said...

Echo annelisa. Wright never said anything particularly bad or untruthful (except for the AIDS-as-conspiracy stuff---argh). What pissed me off more than anything was that press conference, which looked to all the world like a purely spiteful, egotistical move. (I was especially pissed because I had just watched the Bill Moyers interview, and come away with a mostly favorable impression of him. If there's one thing I hate, it's when someone tricks me into liking them, against my every screaming instinct to hold the entire world at arm's length.) He KNEW what would happen if he did that, and he apparantly didn't care. Obama won, but no thanks to him.

spool32 said...

Maybe now Obama can expose the AIDS conspiracy and arrest the perpetrators. Prove us all wrong, eh?

buh-bye, D-bag.

Serafina said...

I wonder if Obama will allow Wright back into his favor, now that he's in office. Or if he will forever keep him in arms lenght, so as to not taint the wonderful perception everyone has of him right now.

But I agree, him doing those crazy arm moments. Strutting on the stage, in front of the podium like an egyptian, made me sick and irked my last nerve

the uppity negro said...

@AB

I could see how him waiting didn't work out to his nor Obama's benefit, but I'm going to be partial to Wright until the day I die, those with a good memory of previous posts will know why.

Part of the reason Wright was quiet at first was because of stuff going on back at Trinity. It was a transition of power going on at the church and church members were being attacked by media. He had homefront issues that needed his attention.

I personally think Wright DID momentarily get the big head at the NPC conference because in the gallery there were people who were in his corner and he somehow forgot how what woulda been fine in front of the NAACP crowd wouldn't fly with the rest of America. I think Wright and Pfleger are the victims of people who know nothing about the black community and moreover the tradition of the Black Church.

@annelisa

I doubt we'll see Rev. wright and Obama together any time soon, if ever, but I heard Obama give credit to Rev. Otis Moss when he was stumping last week in Cleveland, the father of the current pastor of Trinity, Wrights predecessor.

@spool32

I'm with you. I don't do conspiracy theories well. But, there may be some juice behind that claim. However, to make such an unsubstantiated claim doesn't go over well. But, is that not what most of the GOP platform is? lol

annelisa said...

Oh I missed Wright's embrace of the AIDS conspiracty theory! So he's a little nutty/old-school/victim-mentality-towing -- and he risked complicating Obama's run when he got enamored with all the attention for a minute. But I never heard him say anything I haven't heard from the mouths of people I know. To my mind, all the GOP "outrage" over Rev. Wright just seemed really silly.

spool32 said...

Then again, annelisa, you live in Berkeley. Am I surprised people you know spout the same crazy sh!t?

Nope!

Anonymiss said...

C/S The Uppity Negro.

Loves the video. I wish Real Time was on basic cable or came out on DVDs.

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