Posted on 11/06/2010 3:30:53 PM PDT by Libloather
I still love Obama. Love. Love. Love.
Am I the last person in America who still adores the president?
By Curtis Sittenfeld
November 7, 2010
Just before Halloween 2008, while out for a walk, I noticed that on the front porch of a nearby house sat a row of five pumpkins, each carved with one letter of Barack Obama's last name. The election was, at that point, a week away, and I was charmed by this seasonal display of Democratic support.
Then I rounded the corner and spotted the exact same arrangement: a row of five pumpkins, each carved with one letter of Obama's last name. OK, so maybe not quite as original as I'd thought but still encouraging, at least for a liberal like me living in a swing state — my neighborhood, after all, is not in Brooklyn or Berkeley but in suburban St. Louis, Mo., a state that ultimately, by a margin of 0.1 percent, didn't go for Obama in '08.
This Halloween, it was clear that if I wanted to see a row of jack-o'-bamas, I'd need to carve them myself. Once it was impossible not to trip over Obama enthusiasm. (Remember the young voters unofficially changing their middle names to Hussein?) But these days, even YouTube sensation Obama Girl is feeling lukewarm about our president: Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, told the New York Post in January she'd give Obama a B- grade: "In my opinion, I feel like he should be focusing a lot more on jobs and the economy."
But my own feelings haven't changed at all. Two years after voting for him, I'm just as exhilarated as Oprah Winfrey was in Grant Park on Nov. 4, 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
>>This Halloween, it was clear that if I wanted to see a row of jack-o’-bamas
Jack-o-bama. Now if “we” coined that term, it would be racist. But, I like it. I’m adding it to my list of nicknames for Obozo.
No surprise that race is first and foremost on the mind of this ultra-lib schmuck. He and his ilk are still patting themselves on their backs about how their vote and continued uncritical support for Obama proves how "post-racial" they are, when if fact the very opposite is true -- they're race obsessed.
I'm glad you posted this--seriously--because it's a fantastic example of the decpetion journalists routinely play. Here we see them create a false position, and then attack it.
He writes "he's willing to listen to various points of view: as part of a list of things some say are wrong with Obama, when this is something Obama DOESN'T do, and THAT is what he's been criticized for. Here he spins it as, poor Obama, he listens to people and is criticized for it! Thus enforcing the lie that Obama does listen, and even takes crap for it.
But when I see Obama on television, I'm unfailingly struck by his intelligence and charisma, by his easygoing humor, by the magnificence of his megawatt smile.
I've never heard someone who can't say "hello" without a teleprompter complimented for intelligence and charisma. And I guess you could call his scowl megawatt-level.
I like his mind-bendingly multicultural extended family.
I guess his box-dwelling brother and his aunt whose bills are paid by the Massachusetts taxpayer aren't part of that family.
I thought that the beer summit of 2009 was delightful.
Of course you did--you're a liberal, and the subject of that summit was a working-class cop the president of the United States said acted "stupidly" while doing his job.
Curtis Sittenfeld's most recent novel is "American Wife."
If this article is any indication, it's actually the title of Curtis's autobiography.
Oops, I thought Curtis was a man.
Curtis has a problem.
That is possibly the most pathetic thing I have read in a long, long time.
Somebody should tell this thing to get up off of its knees. It was embarrassing to even read.
Is that a man or a woman?
This is weird. This is an old article - maybe about a week or more? I’ve already read it. Plus, it’s dated tomorrow. Today is the 6th. Weird.
Sounds like great a 2012 election slogan - no? I may have to do some nifty carving in a few years.
Phew! It felt like my penis fell off, but not really.
I'm glad it wasn't just me--I don't recall this "unofficially changing their name" crap because that would have meant people could openly DISCUSS that this was his middle name.
I DO recall lefty commentators noting some congressman saying "Barack Hussein Obama" and accusing him of racism.
I cracked the code on this case!
Curtis, a girl, was given a male name by her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sittenfeld.
Stanley, a girl, was given a male name by her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Dunham.
No doubt this plays a big part in why Curtis so smitten with the whole Zero Experience....
LOL! Poor pathetic soul!
Curtis is like the abuse wife, who still loves her man! Obama could beat the living hell out of Curtis, and he would say, “Thank you”.
I think my Halloween Jack-O-Lantern just threw up.
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