This weather's giving me a migraine, and nutcase-neighbor of the indoctrinated right-wing variety just insisted on angrily ranting about Obama in the entryway (and all the way up in the single elevator). All over the recycled talking-point spectrum, that one. Not quite full-on racist, though -- Haitian immigrants are apparently acceptable. But I did give her a bit of a pause when I told her that no, Juan Williams (Fox's "liberal balance") is no liberal, because I am, and he's way to the right of me (thought I'd leave out the 'stooge' part of the argument there). If I weren't getting towards a migraine, I'd have avoided the whole thing. Though maybe not, because the hairtrigger was apparently my joke (to the other woman in the room) about well, at least all those politicians' fliers in the mailboxes make jobs for the color-flier-printing industry. Seriously, if that sets you off...
Wonder if she's the one who keyed my "Obama/Biden '08" sticker.
Anyway, no more thinking for me tonight. There are already spoilers out there covering tonight's interview. A favorite:
Jon Stewart driller Obama med forandring
Barack Obama forsvarede sit politiske projekt med at forandre Washington, da han gæstede det satiriske nyhedsudsendelse "The Daily Show".
USA’s præsident, Barack Obama, var onsdag aften (lokal tid) på besøg i "The Daily Show", hvor værten Jon Stewart drillede ham, som han vanligt gør med sine gæster.
- Denne her idé om, at vi hurtigt kunne forandre Washington - det arbejder vi stadig på, men det kommer ikke til at ske i løbet af en enkelt dag, siger Obama, da han blev udspurgt om sit Change-valgkampsløfte fra 2008.
- Da vi i løbet af valgkampen lovede ‘forandring som du kan tro på’, så var det ikke forandring du kan tro på i løbet af 18 måneder, siger præsidenten.
Stewart lavede også sjov med Obamas kampagnemantra: "Vi er den forandring, som vi har ventet på".
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Not that I haven't had my quibbles with some Administration actions/policies, but I think tonight I'll lift a mug to my neighbor, and then just hit mute and lookit the pretty Mr. President:
President Barack Obama tapes an interview for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., October 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) source:whitehouse.gov |
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