Comments on: When you’re done leading the free world hows ’bout making me a sammich and getting me a beer http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:17:02 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: merl http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7435 merl Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:18:49 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7435 <p>Damnit! aimai beat me to it.</p> Damnit! aimai beat me to it.

]]> By: TheKenoshaKid http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7427 TheKenoshaKid Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:13:55 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7427 <p>My witty comment won’t fit here, so I put it <a href="http://thekenoshakid.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-wrong-can-j-pod-be.html" rel="nofollow">on my blog. </a></p> My witty comment won’t fit here, so I put it on my blog.

]]> By: PaminBB http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7393 PaminBB Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:38:53 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7393 <p>That FDR, what a micromanager, thinking that he actually had to do anything other than showing up. </p> <p>Real men (aka Republicans) know that work is for the little people. Kinda like taxes. That’s why Shrub has outdistanced even RR in the race to take as much vacation as possible. And Big Dick, well, who the hell knows where he is most of the time?</p> That FDR, what a micromanager, thinking that he actually had to do anything other than showing up.

Real men (aka Republicans) know that work is for the little people. Kinda like taxes. That’s why Shrub has outdistanced even RR in the race to take as much vacation as possible. And Big Dick, well, who the hell knows where he is most of the time?

]]> By: TheRealityBasedDave http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7384 TheRealityBasedDave Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:29 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7384 <p>But that’s totally different! The rich are entitled to govt hand-outs because they are better than the masses of humanity. The little people deserve nothing because they have - nothing.</p> <p>/snark off</p> <p>ps: Question to the Tboggans: A coworker gave me the book Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. That’s his world view. He was of course born “on third base”. Do any of you know of an economic tome that refutes Sowell’s Libertarian views? I need ammo.<br /> thanks in advance…</p> But that’s totally different! The rich are entitled to govt hand-outs because they are better than the masses of humanity. The little people deserve nothing because they have – nothing.

/snark off

ps: Question to the Tboggans: A coworker gave me the book Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. That’s his world view. He was of course born “on third base”. Do any of you know of an economic tome that refutes Sowell’s Libertarian views? I need ammo.
thanks in advance…

]]> By: captphealy http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7372 captphealy Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:27:42 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7372 <p>You can lead a whore to Tory, but you can’t make her vote.</p> You can lead a whore to Tory, but you can’t make her vote.

]]> By: DennisSGMM http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7368 DennisSGMM Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:53:04 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7368 <p>Interesting, innit, that the same Free Marketeers who are now lining up hat in hand for government bailouts are many of the same ones who scream “Socialism!” at every attempt of the government to help those who are at the bottom of the ladder.</p> Interesting, innit, that the same Free Marketeers who are now lining up hat in hand for government bailouts are many of the same ones who scream “Socialism!” at every attempt of the government to help those who are at the bottom of the ladder.

]]> By: moondancer http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7367 moondancer Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:33:57 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7367 <p>I guess the GOP will co-opt Roosevelt if they get shellacked in this cycle. I expect to see hundreds of goopers wheeling around in thirties-style wheelchairs at the 2012 held in Smalltown,Pa. Overalls are optional.</p> I guess the GOP will co-opt Roosevelt if they get shellacked in this cycle. I expect to see hundreds of goopers wheeling around in thirties-style wheelchairs at the 2012 held in Smalltown,Pa. Overalls are optional.

]]> By: RPorrofatto http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7366 RPorrofatto Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:18:01 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7366 <p>So much for that <i>Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country</i> guy. The nerve!</p> <p>Of course, the irony is that Obama’s comment is only controversial to the degree that it is irrefutably true and patently obvious to anyone with an Internet connection, and that’s why wingers everywhere are pouncing on it. As we’ve seen, truth is anathema to any form of GOP politics, and Reagan’s handlers learned very well that you can get away with any lie if you just say it loud and often enough, because the truth will only appear on page A17 a week later as just one more alternative, a lesson perfected by the current catastrophe in the White House.</p> <p><br /></p> So much for that Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country guy. The nerve!

Of course, the irony is that Obama’s comment is only controversial to the degree that it is irrefutably true and patently obvious to anyone with an Internet connection, and that’s why wingers everywhere are pouncing on it. As we’ve seen, truth is anathema to any form of GOP politics, and Reagan’s handlers learned very well that you can get away with any lie if you just say it loud and often enough, because the truth will only appear on page A17 a week later as just one more alternative, a lesson perfected by the current catastrophe in the White House.

]]> By: ceo1 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7364 ceo1 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:10:32 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7364 <p>I suspect that “J-Pod sperm” used some old family connections to be first out of the _______________ (I am drawing a blank here but am open to any suggestions).</p> I suspect that “J-Pod sperm” used some old family connections to be first out of the _______________ (I am drawing a blank here but am open to any suggestions).

]]> By: Hatmandu http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7363 Hatmandu Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:27 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/when-youre-done-leading-the-free-world-hows-bout-making-me-a-sammich-and-getting-me-a-beer/#comment-7363 <p>I think what J-Pod is really trying to say is that if we could all just be born on third base, we wouldn’t need people, to like, do stuff, or think. Or something.</p> I think what J-Pod is really trying to say is that if we could all just be born on third base, we wouldn’t need people, to like, do stuff, or think. Or something.

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