Barack Obama should never ad lib. He should cling to his TelePrompter like a bitter Pennsylvanian clings to guns and religion.
Exhibit Umpteenth: Obama’s Thursday address to minions of his front group, Organizing for America, in which he made light of his free-fall approval numbers.
Proving once again that Sarah Palin is the last refuge of scoundrels, Obama recalled other times he was counted out, as Breitbart.com reported (via Drudge).
Then Obama drew parallels to the media frenzy that greeted the nomination of firebrand Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.
“The media was obsessed with it, cable was 24 hours a day,” Obama told a friendly audience of grass-roots Democratic activists at a Washington forum broadcast live over the web.
“‘Obama’s lost his mojo,’ you remember all that?
“There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!”
Raise your hand if you have the faintest idea what “all wee weed up” means.
So far, Google News has about 15 results for “wee weed up,” while the Googletron itself has 3200 (at 2 a.m. Eastern) and counting – fast.
Not least among them, a post from Mad Michelle Malkin titled “‘All wee weed up’ and nowhere to go.”
God only knows where Obama will go, but I’ll tell you where the rightwing gunsels will go.
That’s right: All the way home.
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Aw, c’mon John – it just sounds like self-censorship to me, like I (and parents everywhere) used to do when my kids were young. You know what he wanted to say, and it was too Cheney-esque to pass muster.
Oh and kudos on the “gunsel”! (I just wanted to do that before Pierce did, though he would no doubt come up with a more eloquent congratulatory phrase.)
You’re right, Steve, but what Obama doesn’t seem to grasp is the politics of vocabulary – if he had said “all testosteroned up,” we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
True. I’m sure Fox will be all “he said ‘weed’ huh huh huh huh”.
Fox and talk radio will glom onto “we weed up”, the maintstream media will cover Fox and talk radio doing so, the blogosphere will chime in (“It’s a Kenyan term that means euthanize the elderly”)and Jon Stewart will lament the media frenzy that ensued. Such is what passes for political insight and discourse on the issues of the day. Health care reform, Tom Ridge’s confession about playing with colors for political reasons, mounting casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq–too “heavy” for summer.
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