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60 Minutes is a television show about evil pharmaceutical company executives and child molesters, starring Andy Rooney as a straight-talking curmudgeon who guiltily masturbates to old issues of Life Magazine. In this week’s installment, Steve Kroft interviewed a promising young movie star named Barack Obama about what it will be like playing the nation’s first black President.
This guy, so sensible:
There’s a new book out about FDR’s first 100 days and what you see in FDR that I hope my team can – emulate, is not always getting it right, but projecting a sense of confidence, and a willingness to try things. And experiment in order to get people working again.
And I think that’s what the American people expect. You know, they’re not expecting miracles. I think if you talk to the average person right now that they would say, ‘Well, look, you know well, we’re having a tough time right now. We’ve had tough times before.’ ‘And you know, we don’t expect a new president can snap his fingers and suddenly everything is gonna be okay. But what we do expect is that the guy is gonna be straight with us. We do expect that he’s gonna be working really hard for us.’
(He is probably talking about this book, although he should really check out Traitor to His Class, the new biography by H.W. Brands, except it is 900 pages long. Oh and this one too, this one looks quite good.)
Anyway what other nice things did Barack Obama say in this interview with the gotcha journalist Steve Kroft?
- “I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture. And I’m gonna make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world.”
- “My interest is finding something that works. And whether it’s coming from FDR or it’s coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we’re gonna apply it. And things that don’t work we’re gonna get rid of.”
- On the $300 billion already spent on the bailout, to little apparent effect: “I think the part of the way to think about it is things could be worse. I mean, we could have seen a lot more bank failures over the last several months. We could have seen an even more rapid deterioration of the economy, even a bigger drop in the stock market. So part of what we have to measure against is what didn’t happen and not just what has happened.”
If this guy wants to sound like a real president, he will have to quit saying “gonna” and “gotta” all the time. Otherwise A plus for this obvious radical Muslim socialist sneaking his way into the White House so that he can tax us for working hard. WE TRIED TO WARN YOU, AMERICA.
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Wait a minute. Those FDR books have way too many words. Didn’t one of his kids write a children’s book about him?
All hail Obama. Though I’ve gotta agree, he should say “gotta” less (Do as I say, not as I do).
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WE TRIED TO WARN YOU, AMERICA. You did not. You were always in the tank for this Muslin guy and you know it. I hope your bosses in Waziristan are satisfied.
…Andy Rooney is still alive?
Wait a minute, are you saying we’re in for another Kakistocracy?
And I think that’s what the American people expect. You know, they’re not expecting miracles.
That’s real rich, St. Barack of Obama. We elected you so you could cure the lepers, not try to cure the lepers.
Wait, we’re critiquing Barry’s “easyspeak” after 8 years of awkward smirks and monosyllabic grunts?
NoWireHangers:
Do, or do not, there is no try.
He’s so dreamy!
Thank you for pointin out the droppin of the ‘g’s
Also,he needs to get those Palin speeches off his ipod, you betcha.
I vote “look” as the word he needs to stop saying so damn much.
Michelle needs to lay off the eyebrow waxing–she’s starting to look Cruella deVille-ish.
I hope he tries that water to wine miracle. Eight years of a dry presidency has ruined our country.
magic titty: It’s a hard habit to break [Chicago] la la la
Wait, so he is not a magician? No spells to cure AIDS and sub-prime mortgages? Whoops. Sarah Palin’s vagina is magic though…maybe her legs could have cured America’s problems? We will never know!
ManchuCandidate: Try or not try, there is no do.–Chrysippus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius.
Blue Line: He also HAS to stop saying “Y’know.”
>>But what we do expect is that the guy is gonna be straight with us.
OBAMA THINKS AMERICANS ALL HAET THE GAYZ*
WHY DOES OBAMA THINK SO LITTLE OF US?
*objectively true in Utah and California..
If America is to regain its stature, it’s got to invade France and get rid of the Nasties. Or else invent the Hula Hoop again.
Almost an hour’s wait for the important stuff: the puppy update.
You know, it’s every other sentence beginning with “You know” that’s distracting me. But then I could listen to Mr Presidelect[able] say you know you know you know you know you know you know you know you know with That Voice 4EVER.
PrairiePossum: Exactly. Bring on the micro-brew, too.
I, for one, welcome our photogenic, biracial overlord.
its Monday morning, i’m hung over, and America’s post election rush to rationality is irritating me to no end… …
i need more kool-aid…
and maybe a couple of Advil……
Gonna and gotta are fine. At least there are no You betchas or Doggone its.
My interest is finding something that works. And whether it’s coming from the Marquis de Sade or it’s coming from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, if the idea is right for the times then we’re gonna apply it. And things that don’t work we’re gonna get rid of.
ella: hes gonna welch on the puppy deal, i can smell it.4tehlulz: as far as hating teh gheyz goes, i thought the muslin gheyz were the ones that elected him. Its a little soon to be hatin on teh gheyz. isnt it?
HA!
He didn’t WINK once! also
-SP
Clearly Barry’s pirate suite eye-patch over his RIGHT EYE, shows that even as a child he was blind to the right and their viewpoints. Why does young Barry wearing a pirate suite at his Madrassa hate center-right america so much?
That’s for me to know and for you to find out, Steve.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s not so much the words he uses, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaas it is his peculiar inflections aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand his tendency to drag out connecting words.
That little family is so cute, I don’t want them leaving the White House lest they get hurt. Maybe they need to just all hunker down in Dick Cheese’s panic room whereever it is in the bowels of the White House because I’m worried about them and the new puppy.
He should get a couple of rottweilers. That’ll scare the shit out of white America.
I shall sleep easy in somebody else’s bed knowing that Barry is out there fighting for the Gipper or whatever.
Also, I shall give him a pass on the ‘gotta’. If plain speaking was good enough for Abe Lincoln, it’s good enough for me. We don’t want a president sounding like Peggy Noonan, do we? Didn’t think so.
Bypartizoa:
Irish Wolfhounds with slight dementia.
charlesdegoal: I thought the idea was to send the US army to France where they got to drink wine and shoot at Germans. Heck, worked before. Maybe this time we send civil war re-enactors. so they don’t attack a tour bus from Aachen or something.
Mustang: The interesting thing about their “little” family is he’s about 6′3″, and she’s damn close to it; her brother is a basketball coach. Those darling little children will be able to slam dunk by the time they’re 14.
Shit, now there’s a Wonkette reading list?
Hey I didn’t sign up for creating informed comments.
Bypartizoa: Every once in a while, we get a good king. Just like the Middle Ages.
ihasasad: I noticed that 44 always includes an apostrophe when G-droppin’.
Texan Bulldoggette:
Start to worry if they get a dalmatian puppy.
“I, for one, welcome our photogenic, biracial overlord.”
I’m making this into a button.
Didn’t he say he was gonna abolish college football programs across the country?
AngryBlakGuy: No. Animatronic Andy only.
I assume everyone is as concerned as I am that our new president seems to have full, sometimes complex, thoughts and is able to enunciate them in a clear and even logical manner. What will what’s left of our friends and allies think?
No “gonna,” no “gotta,” no “you know” - you guys want him to have a Midwestectomy or something?
gjdodger: As I understand it, Barack is 6′ 1″ and 1/2 and Michelle is 5′ 11″. I guess it’s okay if the girls go play on the new basketball court, as long as they don’t leave the premises.
Motherfucker forgot to mention Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals. That’s a mandatory book mention for everyone these days. Her lawyers are gonna fuck him up soooo bad.
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WikipediaBrown: Exactly. Obama’s casual words like “gonna” and “gotta” are good because they speed up the conversation. Whereas Palin’s interjections and folksy phrases, also, slow down the conversation by wasting time on words that mean nothing.
Great, and now America is going to have to start using words like “emulate”, as in, Sheeyat, the only thing my new Dodge Ram emulates about my old F-150 is the fukkin’ trucknutz.”
WikipediaBrown: Not to mention “My friends.”
CrunchyKnee: At least the SS code name Renegade now makes a little more sense.
We just got back from a long trip overseas.
Did Ross Perot win the race for president? Is Madelaine Albright still Secretary of State? What’s this “google” thing everyone’s talking about? And why is everybody suddenly talking to themselves on the streets and in supermarkets?
Obama’s a magic god (or maybe a Wizard !) who’s gonna make it all better - like a day on Waikiki, circa 1952 only with Internet porn, Google Earth and better pot. Soon he and his magical family ( two of whom are fairies) will move into the castle, throw the Grand Vizer into the dungeon and unicorns will dance on the White House lawn.
I hope Obama does tax people for working hard, because I am seriously the laziest motherfucker you will ever meet. About time you overachieving assholes got taken down a peg.
gjdodger: I have no problems with all of that because it comes off like Barry’s actually thinking. It just sounds weird because we’re not used to hearing a President who can think.
You can catch up by picking up just about any broadsheet or pamphlet at your local grogshop.
I hope they re-decorate the Oval office in purple plush, leopard print and a disco ball.
I asked my husband if he thought they had a black maid but he said “Hell no! They have a Mexican, like everybody else.”
thefrontpage: Also, you may want to modify your commenter name; perhaps “thehomepage”?
d4g33z: OH NOES!! Just when my team is doing so well!!!
If he’d had run on the platform of creating a CFB playoff system, the State of Alabama surely would have gone blue… Especially the Auburn vote.
IonaTrailer: They should hire a translucent-blond Swedish maid and forbid her by Presidential edict to appear on the streets without an apron.
AxmxZ: I hear that Russian gal from Hot For Words is being considered for in-house lexicographer.
If Steve Kroft threw Obama any more softballs, they would both turn lesbian.
I don’t know… It’s hard to project a sense of confidence when you freely admit that you’re “not always getting it right”. Perhaps he means confidence in his administration’s incompetence - a legacy from George W Bush.
AxmxZ: “Hail to the Chief” played Jimmie Hendricks style with wacka-ja-wacka guitar.
“Foxy Brown” as the head of Secret Service
Remember about a hundred years ago when they tried to fire Andy Rooney because he was 100 years old and had run out of ideas? They had a vote among the viewers, and he got to stay. Now we’re stuck with him until he dies.
“He should get a couple of rottweilers. That’ll scare the shit out of white America.”
Dare we say, pit-bulls ? Or is that in too Michael Vicks poor taste?
Well, if it’s this old issue of life I don’t blame Andy one bit sophialorenlife
I will trade Frat Boy’s noo-kyou-lar for Hopey’s gonna aaaaaaaaaaaand any day of the week.
Wait until his African family shows up from Kenya for the inauguration.
White people’s heads be exploding with all them dashiki wearing mothafuckas.
I seriously hope he gets all ethnic and shit.
Plebs don’t trust politians that say “going to” and “got to.” It means you’re a fag.
Or a Prime Minister
Hey, it’s Mickey Rooney playing Andy Hardy; you tweeters can’t just compress it into Andy Rooney because you’re in a meth-induced hurry…
Was that the longest necktie in 60 Minutes interview history? It came out the bottom of his jacket, went down the hall and out for the walk he said he missed.
Mr. O. sure does talk good, however, and trust me, his Chicagoese is practically non-existent. I mean, say der, pal, “Obama” — whad izdat?
I saw Bible Spice on Wolf Blitzer’s Chatty Bitch-Slap Situation Word Last Call Recovery Room yesterday morning and then Himself on “60 M” last night, and the difference was just *staggering*. Palin didn’t answer a single question, and Obama answered all of them. And that was just the first biggest difference between their ways of communicating that I noticed.
IonaTrailer: Barackstar in da house.
gjdodger: And he alssso dragsss out the s’sssss, preciousssssss. sssstill, we lovesssss him, he’sssss oursssss.
Blue Line: His whole team needs to stop saying “look” (Axelrod, Gibbs, et all) – I think it was part of their training (how to takeover America in 24 months). They all use it to mesmerize us. It worked for them so far so why stop now. I like Hopey speak – he had me at “understand this
hopey is going to be the most chill president ever, how is it possible to sound that cool & sane when your day job is now basically to save the world from impending doom? george always sounds not just stupid but oddly jittery when he was forced to pretend he’s thinking and working and all that shit. barry spends all his time babbling on about hope & nonsense, yet he’s not the one that comes off looking batshit crazy.
oh and michelle’s vajajay must be some kind of magic to hypnotize a man into to sounding so excited at the thought his mother in law moving in with them. the way those two were carrying on, my man reggie is going to be awfully busy in his new role chief doorman to the oval office.
I am apparently getting free DSL right now (they’ve cut off my phone, but not my internets powers). That is a good sign for the economy because it makes me feel less poor.
I just thought you all should know that. Therefore, the end.
I love how smart he sounds. What a refreshing change.
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