JONATHAN LIVINGSTON OBAMA [Ann Coulter]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ann does a disservice to Hallmark. BO's pablum is more likely to be found on the 99 cent cards of other card companies.

21 posted on 02/14/2007 4:31:58 PM PST by thegreatbeast (Avenge Curt Weldon!)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

To compare Obama to Jonathan Livingston Seagull is entirely unfair -- to Jonathan.

22 posted on 02/14/2007 4:32:18 PM PST by TBP

To: 2ndDivisionVet

(There was also this inspirational nugget: "Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call." Is this guy running for president or trying to get people to switch to a new long-distance provider?)

23 posted on 02/14/2007 4:37:17 PM PST by mirkwood (good gun control is a sharp eye and a steady hand)

To: Vigilanteman

I have not been able to find any recent pictures of Hussain's mum or stepdad or even recent pics of Dad. are they all dead?

24 posted on 02/14/2007 4:41:29 PM PST by Chickensoup (WE are the media....The New Media.)

I have not been able to find any recent pictures of Hussain's mum or stepdad or even recent pics of Dad.are they all dead?

I think they were part of that crowd that got bombed this week in iran.

25 posted on 02/14/2007 4:48:02 PM PST by gotribe (There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)

I find it interesting that a sitting senator does not have any pics if the folks out there.

26 posted on 02/14/2007 4:51:40 PM PST by Chickensoup (WE are the media....The New Media.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides.

I was wondering if anyone else saw this.

27 posted on 02/14/2007 4:52:37 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")

Quoting Ms.Coulter's nuggets in this article would take up too much time. I should just print out all of my favorites and place them on my refrigerator. That should keep me laughing for the next few days.

"He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: 'There are those who don't believe in talking about hope.' Take that, Hillary!"

(((laughing)))

28 posted on 02/14/2007 4:56:06 PM PST by This Just In

To: thegreatbeast

The difference between Hallmark and Obama is that Hallmark sounds heartfelt in its platitudes.

29 posted on 02/14/2007 4:57:50 PM PST by dan1123

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have to say Barack Hussein Obama is the Hallmark Card presidential candidate. If you love a mountain of platitudes, he's your guy. All he needs is the poetic touch.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

30 posted on 02/14/2007 5:06:58 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)

To: EternalVigilance

His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides

Oh yes. Perfect description of clinton speeches and he got elected.

31 posted on 02/14/2007 5:25:40 PM PST by WVNan

To: 2ndDivisionVet

My top Ann quotes from this outstanding article:

"(I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I'm feeling.) "

A shot at the green crowd, which will likely go for B.O.

"This guy's like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There's no telling exactly how many he's sitting on, but it could be in the billions."

Another shot at the environmental wacko crowd.

"Maybe liberals aren't secret racists expunging vast stores of white guilt by hyperventilating over B. Hussein Obama. Maybe they're just running out of greeting card inscriptions. "

Her last line, but not her best.

"What is so audacious about announcing that you're running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president."

Insulting Dennis is like shooting fish in a barrel--a very small fish.

"In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in "the basic decency of the American people." And let the chips fall where they may! "

B.O., you risk-taker you!

"As long as Obama insists on using Hallmark card greetings in his speeches, he could at least get Jesse Jackson to help him with the rhyming. "

This is a twofer!

"He said that "we learned to disagree without being disagreeable." (There goes Howard Dean's endorsement.) "

Ann just takes these trite-isms and turns them into funny!

"He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: "There are those who don't believe in talking about hope." Take that, Hillary! "

I took a double take on this--I knew there was a connection between Hillary and hope, but it took a second, and then LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Hillary really DOESN'T talk about hope--or Hope--or Bill, the Man from Hope.

And the best for last:

32 posted on 02/14/2007 5:31:01 PM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (Here's an experiment for God's existence: Ask Him to contact you.)

To: isthisnickcool

This is an issue that I've wondered about when it comes to Islam and American decendants of African slaves. How any of them could become moslems seems just odd to me.

Personally I have always questioned why slaves adopted the religion of those who enslaved/owned them. That goes for Christianity and Islam.

Can we actually hold current people responsible for the actions of their ancestors? Your connection is tenuous at best with no real proof available.

Correct me if I am wrong but slavery existed before either Christianity and Islam existed. The Jews were slaves in the polytheistic land of Egypt centuries before the birth of Jesus or Muhammed.

Barack Hussein Obama has nothing in common with Americans that are decendants of slaves. He's not "black".

Maybe in this case "African-American" would be a better term? What I am about to say could be termed subjective but I believe it to be true. The "black experience" is different for every single person. There is no one way to be black.

Slaves in this country were not only from Africa. The natives in the new world were also enslaved to some degree in the Americas. I don't believe the Arabs were part of that.

Beyond that, blacks in this country have to deal with being directly genetically related to those that were slave owners. Take for example, Thomas Jefferson who has been documented as having had children with a slave he owned. There were others who not so gentle nor held in such high regard as him.

Can you point me toward your source on the slave trade? I would like to do some more research.

33 posted on 02/14/2007 5:58:00 PM PST by CJ-50

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just wish Ann would get married and reproduce herself.

34 posted on 02/14/2007 6:11:28 PM PST by Malesherbes

To: Americanexpat

I'm with you - as are, I believe, most other conservatives. There's not much in Barak Obama to impress serious people looking for a good president.

35 posted on 02/14/2007 6:11:45 PM PST by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow! Ann outdoes herself.

ML/NJ

36 posted on 02/14/2007 6:13:08 PM PST by ml/nj

There is a lot of information out there. Like here.The fact is that the moslems controlled the African slave trade.

As I basically mentioned, I am looking at Obama somewhat through the prism put forth by the Democrats and the media. They have brought up issues of race.

Since Obama's father was a moslem there is not way I'd ever vote for him. Prejudiced? Politically incorrect? Probably yes but I have the right to be that way.

37 posted on 02/14/2007 6:13:46 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Texas governor Rick Perry is a socialist and stupid too!)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I've caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama, Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I'm feeling.)

Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama's "eloquence." His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides.

In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in "the basic decency of the American people." And let the chips fall where they may!

Obama forthrightly decried "a smallness of our politics" — deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided saying, "My fellow Americans, size does matter.")

He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: "There are those who don't believe in talking about hope." Take that, Hillary!

Most weirdly, he said: "I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this — a certain audacity — to this announcement."

What is so audacious about announcing that you're running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president. Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq should surrender, and you're officially a Democratic candidate for president.

Obama made his announcement surrounded by hundreds of adoring Democratic voters. And those were just the reporters. There were about 400 more reporters at Obama's announcement than Mitt Romney's, who, by the way, is more likely to be sworn in as our next president than B. Hussein Obama.

Obama has locked up the Hollywood money. Even Miss America has endorsed Obama. (John "Two Americas" Edwards is still hoping for the other Miss America to endorse him.)

But Obama tells us he's brave for announcing that he's running for president. And if life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

I don't want to say that Obama didn't say anything in his announcement, but afterward, even Jesse Jackson was asking, "What did he say?" There was one refreshing aspect to Obama's announcement: It was nice to see a man call a press conference this week to announce something other than he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.

B. Hussein Obama's announcement also included this gem: "I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change." As long as Obama insists on using Hallmark card greetings in his speeches, he could at least get Jesse Jackson to help him with the rhyming.

If Obama's biggest asset is his inexperience, then if by the slightest chance he were elected and were to run for a second term, he will have to claim he didn't learn anything the first four years.

There was also this inspirational nugget: "Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call." Is this guy running for president or trying to get people to switch to a new long-distance provider?

He said that "we learned to disagree without being disagreeable." (There goes Howard Dean's endorsement.) This was an improvement on the first draft, which read, "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

This guy's like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There's no telling exactly how many he's sitting on, but it could be in the billions.

Obama's famed eloquence reminds me of a book of platitudes I read about once called "Life Lessons." The book contained such inspiring thoughts as:

"When was the last time you really looked at the sea? Or smelled the morning? Touched a baby's hair? Really tasted and enjoyed food? Walked barefoot in the grass? Looked in the blue sky?" (When was the last time you fantasized about dismembering the authors of a book of platitudes?)

I can't wait for Obama's inaugural address when he reveals that he loves long walks in the rain, sunsets, and fresh-baked cookies shaped like puppies.

The guy I feel sorry for is Harold Ford. The former representative from Tennessee is also black, a Democrat, about the same age as Obama, and is every bit as attractive. The difference is, when he talks, you don't fantasize about plunging knitting needles into your ears to stop the gusher of meaningless platitudes.

Ford ran as a Democrat in Republican Tennessee and almost won — and the press didn't knock out his opponent for him by unsealing sealed divorce records, as it did for B. Hussein Obama. Yet no one ever talks about Ford as the second coming of Cary Grant and Albert Einstein.

Maybe liberals aren't secret racists expunging vast stores of white guilt by hyperventilating over B. Hussein Obama. Maybe they're just running out of greeting card inscriptions.

38 posted on 02/14/2007 6:15:13 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

This column was loaded but I praticularly liked this one

What is so audacious about announcing that you're running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president. Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq should surrender, and you're officially a Democratic candidate for president.

How true!

39 posted on 02/14/2007 6:19:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)

To: perfect stranger; AZ_Cowboy

40 posted on 02/14/2007 6:19:55 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)

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