The great Barack Obama conundrum, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

And suddenly we come to the crux of the problem: What shall we do about Barack in 2012?

Have you heard this question recently? Have you felt its icy breath on your neck, its uncomfortable presence in your day, your heart, your daily media grind? I bet you have.

Right now, it looms bright and large. For our fair president has just announced, via slick email/tweet/video clip showing all sorts of dorky postcard Americana -- red barns, fluttery flags, babies on a stick, $9 coffee drinks -- that he is officially running for re-election.

Yes, already. This is apparently now how it works in American politics: You are allowed no more than 2.4 years of impossibly difficult service as redeemer president, shouldering the overwhelming burden of failure foisted on you by your pathetic predecessor, before you have to start fundraising, glad-handing and talking wistfully about your Kenyan father all over again. ...


(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/06/notes040611.DTL&nl=fix)

[malaise]

1. Who the fugg unrecd this post

K & R

[madokie]

2. I would guess one of our republiCON friends

[TheKentuckian]

5. I did because the article is taintlicking assholery and for the barb like use of "libs"

in a fashion and tone of right wingers over the years.

Further, the writer took the liberty of making their assessment not only fact but uncontested and universally accepted history of events.

Hell, I'm proud to unrec the piece of shit.

LIBS???? Really??? Sounds like a fucking dittohead dripping with disdain and nearly visceral hatred of the left combined with the daily hippie punching of the "sensible centrists" to deflect from their unmitigated fuckload of fail and selling out.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[PDittie]

4. everybody really should go read the whole thing

He's a little harsh on those of us who aren't enthusiastic. (Then again maybe that was the OP's intent.)

[TheKentuckian]

6. Morford can go suck garbage juice with a used condom for a straw for that POS