I didn’t watch the SOTU, and I’m glad I didn’t. But even though I didn’t watch the speech, I still agree with what Roger Kimball said about it:
I am not quite ready for the 2012 campaign yet…
Me neither. So I’m glad I don’t have to play this idiotic game.
(Via Glenn Reynolds, who said that Kimball “gets the joke.” Well, thank God somebody gets it so I don’t have to.)
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3 responses to “Thank you Lord for what I did not get”
The first mate made me watch for an hour and ten minutes. Since I love her I tried to keep my complaints down to one or two every ten minutes unless ∅bama said something stupid.
Until he said something stupid? That wouldn’t have taken long, from the bit I saw.
What I can’t figure out is why he keeps bringing up Sputnik.
Why not something, oh… I don’t know…American?
You know, something like Apollo, the Hoover Dam or the trans-contintental railroad.
Or rather, I’m afraid I do know why he doesn’t use an American example. He’s so steeped in leftist thought and a leftist cocoon that he thinks those are symbols of imperialism.
Sputnik killed more cosmonauts than Kruschev and Brezhnev put together.
It just doesn’t seem like a good example for anything except commie disregard for human life at the expense of publicity.