Almost as much as I like the Ann Coulter Rule. Which I now feel obligated to obey.
Posted on 04/01/2009 7:34:58 AM PDT by steve-b
You know you're in trouble when Old Europe chastises you for being too socialist. But, hey, nobody's perfect — except maybe Michelle Obama, who landed in London with a huge Obama entourage, wearing a daffodil yellow dress and looking like a confident ray of U.S.A. sunshine.
As President Obama renegotiates the terms of American leadership this week in Europe, those of us left at home struggle to get over our affluenza. That condition, the bane of the middle class, is defined in a book of the same name as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more."...
I heard a French scientist on a radio show once explain that Americans would always insist on supersizing things because our "reptilian brain" likes things big. We're still big, as Norma Desmond said. It's everything around us that's collapsing and shrinking....
That's the big nettle we're grasping. How big do we need to be to still feel American? How big can our national debt grow? How big can our cars be? And how big is our clout abroad these days? Will Michelle's style in Europe make as big a splash as Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's?
The cowboy push by W. and Dick Cheney to be a hyperpower and an empire left America a weakened and tapped-out power, straining to defend its runaway capitalism even as it uneasily adapts to its desperation socialism.
How do we come to terms with the gluttony that exploded our economy and still retain our reptilian American desire for living large? How do we make the pursuit of the American dream a satisfying quest rather than a selfish one?...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don’t really want to know the answer to that question.
this woman is a Dhimmi of the first order
“President Obama must nurse us through our affluenza, addressing both our visceral need to be big and our cerebral decision to be leaner — and much, much smarter.”
I can see Modo on her knees playing Madonna in the like a prayer video and Obamachev as Jesus.
Almost as much as I like the Ann Coulter Rule. Which I now feel obligated to obey.
Wait a bit. Doesn’t the Maureen Dowd rule call for pictures of Maureen?
LOL.. yea, but Carla is actually a "good looking" woman.
I just read about them yesterday, so this was my first post. I admit, it’s certainly pricked my interest if not but to buy one and keep it for emergencies when gas goes to $10 a gallon. I mean, heck, it’s half the cost of a good 4-wheeler. The engine has to be uncomplicated, so that even I could repair it when times get tough. Maybe I could put it in the trunk of my Buick and use it in case of breakdowns. ;-)
Bump
“President Obama must nurse us through our affluenza”
I believe “affluenza” is a Rush invented term.
Is Modo a closet listener?
While the socialist spends all his time rationalizing and telling people they have more when they have little or nothing.
This article is a prime example.
You should be happy to have a 500 sq. foot apartment, a small efficient car, crappy health care, a $hitty retirement that keeps you right above starving....... That is paradise for the socialist thinker ultimately.
You know what really killed this country? The feminization of it. And it’s too late to go back. I’m embarrassed of the things I hear from my women friends. Ignorant, ridiculous feelings kind of crap that does nothing but make everyone else feel bad. YES, in their attempt to make everyone feel good, turns out NOBODY feels good. Women, yeesh. (Yes, I’m a woman.)
You know what really killed this country? The feminization of it. And it’s too late to go back. I’m embarrassed of the things I hear from my women friends. Ignorant, ridiculous feelings kind of crap that does nothing but make everyone else feel bad. YES, in their attempt to make everyone feel good, turns out NOBODY feels good. Women, yeesh. (Yes, I’m a woman.)
Remember Nina Burleigh..she offered to give Bubba a hummer if he’d keep abortion legal...
Thank you.
Thanks Travis, that’s my favorite pic so far.
These Dowd threads are great, I skip the words and go right to the pics.
They’ll have to take my H1 out of my cold dead hands.
Now they have gone to far. No more hummers. I was so looking forward to the next one.
I shouldn’t have responded to YOUR post. The Tatas in your picture weren’t the ones I was referring to...:-)
Oh, those! Those are $20,000. ;-)
Wow, I’m shocked, that is an outstanding post!
I immediately assumed so, BECAUSE it was RUSH, who yesterday, discussed how Hummers were selling wildly in IRAQ but to be off the market HERE...
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