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    National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise

    Unbelievably Douchey GOP Operative Insists Palin Isn't That Dumb
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/16/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Seems like a fine Obama related post in which to stick the following:


    Wiki answers the questions 'What does Obama mean?' If this is correct, his name literally translates as "he's crooked."


    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OBAMA

    Obama is a name from the Luo ethnic group of southwestern Kenya, where Barack Obama Sr. was born. It was originally the given name of Barack Obama's great-grandfather. It is based on the Luo (technically, Dholuo, the name of the language of the Luo) word bam, which means "crooked, slightly bending" . The prefix O- means "he", and many Luo male names begin with it. Since most traditional Luo names were given by the baby's mother referring to something about the child's birth, the best guess is that when Obama's great-grandfather was born one of his arms or legs looked slightly bent.

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    11/16/08

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Now, more importantly, what's a paltrow?? Is it like a palterer?
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Aw hell, it's just a bunch of the old-boy bankers going to the Cayman Islands to spend the holidays with their ill-gotten gains.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Would it be too much to suggest that despite the company they sometimes keep, and leaving aside the possibility of whether one can responsibly agree with them all the time, Hanson and Ponnuru at least do serious work that causes people to think more deeply on serious subjects?


    And personally, I also enjoy Steyn's style, at least in the obits he used to publish in the Atlantic. (The magazine, not the ocean.)


    Trying out this post-partisanship thing. Seems to have its uses.

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    That's going to be a real ship of tools.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Also, I like to think there's some beauty in all God's creatures, but I cannot say that about that dandruffy, spittle-flecked , angry, foreigner- hating, war-mongering man-walrus John Bolton. His appointment to the UN under W was a gigantic fuck-you to the world.


    I remember reading when he was doing his obstreperous, cantankerous old man schtick to full effect there, someone told the Times : That slovenly, shaggy look of his? It's on purpose. Even his personal grooming comes down to being an aggressive dick, disrespecting the UN by being an obnoxious slob.

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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @Baroness:


    My only fear of camping is that something that looks like John Bolton's moustache will climb into my tent while I sleep.

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    Image of marymaryquitecontrary marymaryquitecontrary
    11/15/08

    @Baroness: the only one who could do slovenly and shaggy and cause me to respect him more, not less, was Vonnegut.


    Apropos of nothing (except perhaps to remind us all of a more righteous and compassionate way of thinking):

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    Image of flossy flossy
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Did any of you see this week's episode of 30 Rock? Jennifer Aniston guest stars as a former roommate of Tina Fey's, a charismatic whack-job sex kitten who parachutes into town and promptly ruins Alec Baldin's life. He knows she's bad for him, but he just can't get enough until he finally ends up hitting rock bottom in hilarious fashion (I won't spoil it any further--go watch it immediately if you haven't already).


    Anyway, yeah. Hello, Sarah Palin! Can't wait to see how badly you inadvertently screw over all the right wingers who love you because they think with their dicks.


    Oh yeah, and Governor? The election's over and Tina Fey still owns your ass.

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    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    There are certain crackpot right-wing rituals, unspeakable, that can only be done in international waters.


    (Actually, Buckley Sr. wrote about the one time he smoked a joint, and he really did take his yacht out to int'l waters to do it. Too droll.)

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/15/08

    @Baroness: Skull and Bones meets Skull and Crossbones?
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    What exactly is incorrect in that pull-quote from Douthat? McCain picked Palin and pulled briefly into the lead. I'm not defending her - she's a delicious idiot - but still.
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    Image of Alex Carnevale Alex Carnevale
    11/15/08

    @Peter Feld:


    I don't think Palin helped McCain, but surely the idea that's the only thing he did that helped him is wrong?

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Worth remembering I guess that this was one of the two conservative cruises last year that introduced "outsider" "maverick" Palin to her inside-the-Beltway cheerleading squad [www.newyorker.com] .

    Sounds like their heart will go on (cue Celine Dion) . . .
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    Image of surfacenoise76 surfacenoise76
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Cruise "crammed" with the "conservative intelligentsia"? Was it held in a rowboat?
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76:


    Jet Ski.

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    Image of TheJerseyDevil TheJerseyDevil
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Every time I see Ross Douthat's name in print, my brain interprets it as "asshat". I'm serious--it's like I'm afflicted with some sort of political dyslexia.
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    11/15/08

    @TheJerseyDevil: I hear you. I think "Douche-hat", and "Doubt that." Sometimes names are destiny.
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    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Is "running mater" an Alex typo, or more scary pseudo-Catholicism from Douthat? Either way, ew.
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    Image of Alex Carnevale Alex Carnevale
    11/15/08

    @sarrible:


    Six of one, half dozen of the other?

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Sarah Resartus? How about Sarah Interruptus?
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/15/08

    In reply to National Review Gets Over Obama Victory On Idyllic Island Cruise
    Drunken sex with Hate O'Beirne surely won't dim the pain but escalate it.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Unbelievably Douchey GOP Operative Insists Palin Isn't That Dumb
    One of those wackos on Faux Noise was speaking with the reporter who gave us all these insights into Failin' Palin, and offered the opinion the fault lay with the preppers; "I mean, she's not dumb." Neither of them offered any evidence for the statement, which is typical of their channel.


    Astounding. It's up to the prep team to teach her elementary school geography.

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