Obamadvocacy: Obamapostasy

I am surprised I think America will surprise this November, not because Obama is jeebus, because the pigugly will be so toxic as to horrify all but the pigugly, and I'm rube enough to think the true and devoutly pigugly are a minority.

This has always been the core of my obamadvocacy: Goad. Poke. We are the enemy.

That Obama appears better than advertised, that his opponent is Misteridiculous, lordy, the forecast is for pig-tornadoes, pig-hurricanes, pig-earthquakes, pig-volcanoes, pig-splatter.

Excellent.

And if the pig-tornadoes, pig-hurricanes, pig-earthquakes, pig-volcanoes, pig-splatter work?

Excellent. Not in a good way, but necessarily excellent nonetheless.

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• It is surely just a coincidence that Obama is looking lustfully at the five year old white girl. Buy the tee-shirt!
• Pastor Gerson, I swear to Ba'al, begrudges the significance of a black man as major candidate for president, but says the true miracle is John McCain, who was soooooo tortured in Vietnam. He watches snuff films in his VC pajamas, the Pastor.
• Modo, I swear to Ba'al, is a hack and viper and one truly shitty writer, which, sans self-aware irony, allows her to capture the zeitgeist of the post-ironic cocktail set.
• Tom Friedman, I swear to Ba'al, is stupider than his mischievous evil, more evil than his mustache.
• Speaking of stupid and evil, Max Boot

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says his victory spear's limpness is Baghdad's fault.

• Short list? Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Evan Bayh, Kathleen Sebelius, Ted Strickland, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Jim Webb, Bill Nelson, Jack Reed, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Tom Daschle, and Sam Nunn.
• Revenge of the Paultards.
• How to (not) spot anti-Semitism. (h/t Richard)
• Some fine dampen your enthusiasm here.

UPDATES later. Or not.

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Obama is a tool. He won't be nationalizing the energy industry. He won't saw off an inch of any leg of the military industrial complex. He won't sign a single piece of legislation that isn't aimed at strengthening American empire. He will be beholden to moneyed interests. He will be a bitter disappointment to believers in Obamajeebus.

But he might send a few more dollars to Head Start. He might nominate for SCOTUS a less piggy pig than Sam Alito. He's got to be less shitty than Misteridiculous.

The difference may be between an owner who gives his dog half a biscuit versus an owner who gives his dog no biscuit after letting the dog back in after shoving the dog out in a thunderstorm to piss.

Whether to feel grateful for the half biscuit is the moral debate. The dog owner certainly thinks you should.

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In my head? Be in yours:

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In my head?

Hey, Ilse, here's the Siouxie song I couldn't remember a couple of weeks ago: