‘Noles Taste Like Chicken
But without all that stringy tendon and such. Oh, you know, over the years I should stop enjoying so deeply the flavor of another groin-stomping of the Seminoles, and yet I just don’t seem to ever be able to get enough. The worst thing is that taking a shot of Patron Silver for every TD starts to interfere with my ability to go for a variable-speed run tomorrow morning. But I’ll gut out a cup of coffee during my 35-40 minutes of stretching and then get out there.
Alabama Crimson Tide: you bitches is on notice–we’re coming for you next week, and you can’t shoot all of us after the game!!!
Obama’s Dream Team
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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Tim GeithnerNot since Magic, Larry and Michael suited up for the original Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics have we so eagerly awaited the announcement of a national starting lineup.
Such is the nature of Barack Obama’s selections for Cabinet posts and his White House inner circle.
At point guard … Rahm Emanuel, the wizard of the Dems’ political turnaround since 2004.
At small forward … Tim Geithner, the wunderkind head of the New York Fed, taking over Treasury.
At power forward … Larry Summers, former Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, now Obama’s bulldog designate as the incoming Director of the National Economic Council.
At shooting guard (heh, heh) … Bob Gates, staying on at Defense as a (token?) Republican holdover.
And at center, the woman in the middle, the one who could have been No. 44 but is still No. 1 in your hearts … Hillary Clinton, who certainly is extending the drama over her selection as Secretary of State.
Obama and his crew unquestionably are bringing together some of the best minds in the country to make swift progress on the economic and diplomatic challenges we face.
But just as pundits on both sides of the political spectrum were generally praising Obama’s picks, Joe Lieberman had to get a word in edgewise and call Obama’s picks to date “about perfect” :
Everything that President-elect Obama has done since election night has been just about perfect, both in terms of a tone and also in terms of the strength of the names that have either been announced or are being discussed to fill his administration.
Obama is certain to enjoy a long honeymoon as he proposes what I anticipate will be nothing short of a “new New Deal.” Look for reams of transformational legislation to be passed within 30 days of his inauguration — and independent liberal Lieberman knows he could play a key role by caucusing with the Dems in the Senate.
Americans can be assured that all this Obama goodwill will extend overseas, particularly in Europe. As with the Dream Team in 1992, the world is rooting for the U.S.
The difference now is the world not only expects a U.S. victory.
It needs a U.S. victory.
Fuck Joe Lieberman
Like all good lefties, I’m pretty pissed off that Joe the Turncoat Senator will get to keep his cushy chair of the Homeland Security Committee. Still, I understand that the Dems are nearing the 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority, causing their loins to engorge with blood that rushes from their brains, as happens in rutting elks. Hence, they couldn’t help themselves from bringing Lieberman back into their caucus, lest he go fully Republican, instead of continuing to be a stealth Republican.
Also, Barry the Uniter needed to not have his party going all tribal and stringing up dissidents, so I’m sure his public two cents suggesting no punishment for Lieberman mattered. But Barry came from Chicago’s hard-core political scene: I can assure you that he has Lieberman firmly by the short and curly hairs, and Joe knows it. The next time Barry needs something from that committee, I bet he gets it. The evidence was all in Joe’s fawning and thankful comments about Barry, and his mewling apology for the things he said about him on the campaign trail.
My First Disagreement with Obama
I kind of sat on this major policy difference I have with the now president-elect while I was canvassing for him and supporting him in the 24 hours from when he presented it and when we all made him our new king, but now that he’s in this has to be put on the table: Barack HUSSEIN (I’m just sayin’) Obama has declared his support for an eight-team NCAA playoff in college football.
I’m still one of those ancient holdouts who doesn’t really mind the current system that much. I’m not fully against the idea of a playoff if indeed a way is found to do it that maintains some lower bowl structure and fairly includes the truly best teams (not as easy as it sounds). But you’d have a hard time convincing me that the best team didn’t come out on top in the last five years. The last time a team that had no business winning got over was probably Ohio State in 2001, and even then the problem wasn’t that they were in the game but that the ref boned the ‘Canes with his late bullshit interference call. Anyway, when Barry starts pushing for the playoff, I’ll be standing athwart him for the first time.
Barack Obama’s election night photos
For those who haven’t see Barack Obama’s election night photos on Flickr, it’s worth five minutes of your time.
Racist asshole booted for Obama slur
Yesterday, Texas reserve center Buck Burnette lost his spot on the Longhorns football team when coach Mack Brown booted him for “violation of team rules.”
Today, the world discovered the real reason for Burnette’s dismissal: He’s a racist asshole.
After Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election, here’s what Burnette posted on his Facebook page (which mysteriously disappeared earlier today):
“all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse”
What kind of idiot in this ultra-connected, socially networked world doesn’t realize that Facebook status updates are broadcast not only to your friends, but well beyond? Did Buck really think none of his friends would spread his inflamatory, ignorant statement to the masses?
Did he not consider how his former African-American teammates might feel about such hateful words?
And check out the apology Burnette issued on his Facebook page before it vanished:
“Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on Facebook in the light of the election. I’m not racist and apologize for offending you …
You’re not racist? So what motivated you to share your buddy’s text message with the world?
“… I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up …
Oh, so it was just the kid in you speaking. Please, continue.
“… I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be OK to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I don’t even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.”
Such an empty, backhanded apology only makes this sad situation worse. We’re obviously talking about a person who is very comfortable using the N word, who runs with others who casually use the N word. (I bet many of those friends are ready to kick Buck’s ass for even apologizing.)
Don’t be shocked in the least that this sort of sentiment is being expressed publicly. Frankly, I expect more stories like this in days and weeks to come.
Especially in Texas. We’re talking about a state in which 23 percent of residents believe Obama is a Muslim, according to a statewide survey last month conducted by the University of Texas. Oh, the irony, Buck.
Coach Brown — major kudos to you for acting swiftly to kick Burnette off the team. It was the right thing to do to preserve team unity.
Buck — I do hope you grow up and join society. You’ve got too much life left to spend it as a hater.
Now the real work begins for Barack Obama, the nation’s Community Organizer in Chief
A couple of days before Election Day, I noted the irony of a community organizer ending the Republican hold on the White House, given how Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin had mocked Barack Obama’s background to the cheers of thousands at the Republican convention.
Here’s a video reminder:
Obama won the presidency precisely because of his experience as a grass-roots organizer. His campaign harnessed the power of the people — and the Internet, the most democratic medium ever conceived — to inspire a nation and build a populist political machine.
This represents nothing short of a sea change in American politics and hopefully in how the nation governs itself. I think Obama realizes that he is now the nation’s Community Organizer in Chief.
From his victory speech:
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
The campaign does not end here — it only shifts its focus to fulfilling the promise of change.
To the hundreds of thousands of volunteers, including myself and many friends who pounded the pavement in the closing days: Don’t stop now. Stay active. Organize. Call and write your Congressional representatives as Obama pushes legislation to effect changes we desperately need.
Obama needs our help now more than ever.
Uh oh … experts on Gators bandwagon
ESPN.com prognosticators are now predicting Florida and Penn State will meet in the BCS title game. Seems they expect Okie State or Oklahoma to take down No. 2 Texas Tech, and the Gators to take out No. 1 Alabama in the SEC title game. I’m in total agreement.
Revenge of the community organizer
Remember during the GOP convension when a smarmy Rudy Giuliani and smug Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama’s background as a community organizer? What a delicious irony that that very experience likely will power Obama to victory over the out-of-touch Republicans.
Gators win in landslide; Obama next?
Congratulations to the Florida Gators, who yesterday avenged Georgia’s insulting 2007 on-field team celebration by spanking the Bulldogs in a 49-10 beat-down in Jacksonville.
The Gators’ landslide included quarterback Tim Tebow’s school record-breaking 37th career touchdown run and three interceptions of future NFL top draft pick Matthew Stafford. Florida held a 49-3 fourth-quarter lead in an unmistakable landslide victory.
Now it’s Barack’s turn. He’s making an aggressive push in Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina and other traditional GOP states in his pursuit of electoral votes. Obama doesn’t just want to win — he wants to secure a mandate. And we’re not talking about the “mandate” W claimed in 2000 when the Supreme Court handed him a victory in an election Al Gore won at the polls.
Yesterday I canvassed for Obama, speaking with dozens of undecided voters. (The majority said they will be voting for Obama.) Today I’ll be making calls to more undecided voters.
What can you do to help Obama to victory Tuesday?
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