Comments on: Past Obama Continues to Vex and Bedevil Present Obama

By: Beige

Beige — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:31:19 +0000

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542742,00.html

Holy crap. When AL SHARPTON tells you to step off the racism hysteria, and when Barack Obama tells you to keep him out of your racial rhetoric, you have officially stepped in it.

By: Beige

Beige — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:43:08 +0000

MC Mom: I told my kids that a compromise was “You give up something, I give up something, and when we’re both equally unhappy, that’s a compromise.” No wonder they don’t like compromising. My older son, when he was four, told his playmate, “Well, that’s unfortunate, Emanuel, because IT’S MY TOY.” I didn’t know whether to reprimand him for not sharing, or compliment him on word usage.

By: MC Mom

MC Mom — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:46:43 +0000

Anonymous Minnow…sounds like a new electronica band.

My daughter is frighteningly verbal for her age (6), and I’m her dictionary of choice when she hears new words. Yesterday MC Mom-Webster was trying to explain what a ‘compromise’ was…not such a long word, but very hard to explain, especially when you don’t want to bring up politicians.

By: Angry Army Wife

Angry Army Wife — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:44:28 +0000

Minnow, don’t forget the decoder ring

By: Minnow

Minnow — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:01:52 +0000

#41 is me, Les. Anonymous is my new super duper top secret spy name.

Aw, shoot. Now I gotta think up a new one.

By: AllyKat

AllyKat — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:36:03 +0000

@ Tal: That’s what happens when you requisition from the government.

This explains why he just did the same speech over and over on the campaign trail. It’s not because he liked the ideas, it’s because he couldn’t say any other speech in the time allotted.

By: Tal

Tal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:56:45 +0000

Does anyone remember that Master P song, “Make ‘Em Say Uhhhhh”?

I put in an order for a gay unicorn, but they gave me a transsexual one instead.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:47:09 +0000

…I apparently picked up using “actually” a few years ago…

I once sat absolutely aghast, listening to a 2nd grade teacher gush about my son’s large vocabulary. “He uses such big words, and he uses them accurately! Words like ‘actually’ and ‘apparently’.”

Yep, even at 4 syllables apiece, momma’s verbal tic becomes baby’s verbal tic.

By: Pearce

Pearce — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:59:22 +0000

I had to get rid of my verbal fillers in middle school or risk failing public speaking. So I instead will place convenient pauses while I put my words together….but I’ve also gotten REALLY good at just improvising. “Oh look. These are the facts. I won’t write a speech. I’ll just go up there and start talking.” That’s the skill you need to be a good public speaker, IMHO.

….Pearce for Senate when I turn 25 next year.

By: Koka

Koka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:59:02 +0000

For BO supposedly being so highly educated, I can’t stand to listen to him speak without the magic teleprompter telling him his every word. He sounds so vacuous it is not funny.