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    Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?

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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    08:14 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    A nobody whose sole claim to fame is that 26 years ago he lived with Obama but the book he is writing isn't a tell-all? Wow, what savvy publisher wouldn't snap that up for a six-figure advance!
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    07:17 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    it's Vadim Ponorovsky from Paradou. He had to edit all the "fucking cocksucker motherfucker''s from the CL listing ..
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    07:04 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    Hey, I work at Five Guys here in D.C. and Obama comes in three times a week.

    Here's what he orders:

    A single patty cheeseburger
    fried onions
    lettuce
    tomato
    pickles
    barbeque sauce

    In my memoir the sandwich has a late night conversation with the president where it helps him solve national issues, offering sage advice on foreign policy, and discussing the detriments of high cholesterol and closing Guantanamo. The president will think it was all indigestion, but the world will know "Cowpatty" was the most influential slab of processed dead meat the president ever conversed with.

    I’m planning to ask for movie rights.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    09:32 PM

    @Spirit Fingers: Make that burger an elaborate metaphor for Iraq and you've got yourself a deal.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:41 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    This listing may set a new standard for "most requirements for least rewards." (Also for "most protracted hanging on of coattails.")
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    07:28 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: Anyone fitting most of the requirements has better (and/or paid) things to do with their time. Starting with writing their own book to complete the graduate program.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    08:18 PM

    @La Mareada: Porque estas mareada?

    #tips
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    06:29 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    At least he politely thanked in advance any sarcastic Craigslisters who might point out what a laughable, stingy wretch he is.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    06:08 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    You have a sacrificial intern around there that can play double agent, don't you?
    Extra credit or something?
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    06:07 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    Vadim Ponorovsky will probably need something to fill his time soon. I hear he is creative, imaginative and a fine writer.
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    Image of misha trotsky misha trotsky
    06:28 PM

    @OliversArmy: And he excels in transferring his emotions to words. Truly the hallmark of a fine writer.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05:58 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    James Frey
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06:06 PM

    @Tremonius: #Guesses
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    05:53 PM

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    He should hire the guy who wrote this:

    [gawker.com]
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    09:07 AM

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    Poor bastards forgot that those scary liberals can read too.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/20/09

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    Actually, the only legitimate position for a Christian to have regarding Obama is to pray for him, full stop. As it has been with everyone who has held the office. Anything else comes from another place not Christian.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/20/09

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    ...many of the original designers of the Psalm 109:8 designs had already decided to remove them on their own.

    Could this be because they were afraid of getting a little unwanted attention from the Secret Service? Bawk bawk bawk.
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    11/20/09

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    "...many of the original designers of the Psalm 109:8 designs had already decided to remove them on their own."

    The equivalent of kicking a guy out of your party and he retorts, "Whatever dude, I was leaving anyway."
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    Image of OHymenMyHymen OHymenMyHymen
    11/20/09

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    Here's the interesting part about Psalm 109:8- it's actually written by King David- and is directed at a large group of people trying to depose him (including Judas).

    Psalm 109-

    1 O God, whom I praise,
    do not remain silent,

    2 for wicked and deceitful men
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

    3 With words of hatred they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.

    4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.

    [...]

    16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy and the brokenhearted.

    It's like the dickward that got the "man shall not lie with another man" verse tattooed on his body without noting that the very next verse is "man shall make no mark upon his body".

    Douches all.
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/20/09

    In reply to CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
    I'm really kind of divided on this story.

    On the one hand, I think there are several reasons this Psalm 109:8 meme is inappropriate and reckless, but not because it's some obviously coded threat against the President. As far as we know, it isn't.

    If it said, "Pray for Obama — Psalm 109:8-9," then yeah, but it doesn't say that, and it seems a little premature to make generalizations and condemnations of whole groups of people over a line they 1.) probably don't all interpret the same way, and 2.) does not actually, on its own, necessarily suggest anything sinister.

    I also worry whether this kind of media attention doesn't actually worsen the "Someone's Going To Try And Kill Barack Obama" hysteria.

    I'm sure CafePress yanked it for business/PR reasons, which I can understand, but censorship — even of the most questionable things — leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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    Edited by Sergio Hernandez at 11/20/09 5:44 PM Sergio Hernandez was starred Sergio Hernandez was unstarred
    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    11/20/09

    @Sergio Hernandez: I hear what you're saying but CafePress is a private business, yes? They reserve the right to sell whatever products they please.
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/20/09

    @Cunning_Linguist: Yes, that is correct. I don't really have an issue with CafePress' decision, I'm sure they have investors or shareholders or whomever to deal with and could do without the PR headache. So it's understandable — and well within their rights as a private business — to yank the merch.

    I'm more concerned about the lynch mob demanding for anyone sporting a Psalm 109:8 t-shirt, bumper sticker, etc. to get thrown in jail.
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    Edited by Sergio Hernandez at 11/20/09 6:02 PM Sergio Hernandez was starred Sergio Hernandez was unstarred
    Image of Magister Magister
    11/20/09

    @Sergio Hernandez: If you follow the link and go one more, the ACLU and Anti-Defamation League said much the same thing, regarding the actual message.
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    Image of fuckingoldman fuckingoldman
    11/20/09

    @Sergio Hernandez: You make a great point about people screaming for others to be arrested. If you check this link [www.binscorner.com] you will see lots of people with signs saying things like "Kill Bush", I bet they don't think those people should be arrested. On that page is a link to a video of John Kerry saying "I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone", which is much more of a direct threat then the t-shirt in question. Do the whining democrats think Kerry should be prosecuted too? My point is both sides play these stupid games and go running to mommy when it happens to their side. They need to sack up.
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/20/09

    @Magister: I had seen that, actually, and to be perfectly honest, it was an element of Gawker's coverage that sort of concerned me.

    John linked to it rather glibly, and unless readers clicked through and read the original article, it wasn't immediately apparent that even legal experts are saying, "Wait a minute, don't jump to conclusions here just yet."
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11:32 AM

    @fuckingoldman: You realize, of course, that this is a precise clone of what you said the last time the CafePress story hit, right? Only you didn't take into account anything from your last try (short version: the context is significantly different in a way that radically impacts the instances you cite)?
    ...Talking to you is like talking to an Etch-A-Sketch, it seems.
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    Image of fuckingoldman fuckingoldman
    12:33 PM

    @Trai_Dep: If it's a clone, how is it significantly different? By definition that thought doesn't make sense. You're right, I do preach the same thing pretty much over and over. Don't get the Etch-A-Sketch analogy...
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    Edited by fuckingoldman at 11/21/09 12:34 PM fuckingoldman was starred fuckingoldman was unstarred
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