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OUR NEW REPUBLICAN HERO: “Barack Obama doesn’t just admire Reagan. Who doesn’t, after all? Barack Obama is Reagan. The new Reagan, all young and handsome and actually married to his first wife and actually a father to his children.” [AOL Political Machine]
Ha — I thought this would give the all-caps crowd at AOL a case of the whiplash. I misunderestimated them.
from the comments section on the link:
“What a DUMB ASS article!!!! Hey Ken,keep drinking the Kool-Aid….lololol!!!”
setting aside the needless repetition of such statements as “laughing out loud out loud out loud” (which quite frankly doesn’t make any sense), this made me think … is dumbass one word or two? i thought it was one, but i could be wrong.
also — why is transportation secretary the de facto bipartisan choice?
I agree with the AOL commenters: America, what color is your kool-aid parachute?!
Wait… Obama created AIDS?
jagorev: Only the Cool ones…
That pic is actually from the future. 10 years. Time Magazine’s man of the year 2018: David Bowie. Yes, that’s right. PRESIDENT Bowie to you. President Bowie’ll make Ronald Reagan look like Barack Obama. (Blue Jeans by Calvin Klein.)
Great, here comes another wave of Jodie Foster-inspired killers.
Oh fucking Jesus H. Goddamn Christ I can only read this AOL POLITICAL machine thing with 10 gallons of Bicardi and a thousand cuban’s running through my bloodstream. Gimme 5 minutes.
So Obama’s kids, like Reagan’s, are gonna grow up to like men?
Ha! I think there’s a small cadre of AOLtards that waits every week for Ken’s post so they can post their unnecessarily long list of SHOCKING LINKS that EXPOSES THE DEMS!
It’s the most logical explanation–I don’t think they have the mental capacity to just compile that within an hour of a post…
@Pope Cat: I have never disagreed with you more than this sincw when you took the helm as Pope Cat.
What the fuck?
Wouldn’t a comparison to Kennedy (in his less than perfect ways) kicked the shit out of this Reagan comparison? Reagan is evil.
I thought you were fucking around, so I started to go with the whole “support pope cat” thing, but no. That was just wrong. You make a lot of insightful awesomeness, but that was bad.
Saddleback Church? Terrible idea on Barry, but don’t start making it the core of his shitty administration.
It’s a fact that LSD without cool aid was considerably more appealing to those of us who actually had some experience with it once or twice, than to its detractors. Most of them were poor chumps who drank it unwittingly and found out the were missing a few chakras or discovered one or two they didn’t know they had. Any drug dealer will tell you they don’t want it legalized. They like to keep the price high, like the price of opiates which are in short supply for the dying in Africa. Don’t you want a bit of opiate when you die? Especially if it’s a painful cancer.
As to pot; it seems Obama has said he’d go easy on the medicinal users. There should be more research on humans. There will be no shortage of volunteers. Massachussetts has just significantly decriminalized it. It’s all about the school yard and the fact that the damned seeds sprout as easily as radishes and carrots and other things any kid can grow. So whaddya want Obama to say? He’s giving up fags and he’d like some good shit? I wouldn’t hold my breath. . .
Not unless it was something really tasty and potent.
If Reagan was so great, where are our space lasers?
Chief Grinning Eagle: I erroneously made a reference to LSD dealers keeping the price high. I meant pot dealers. I don’t believe there is any LSD any more even on the black market. Correct me if I”m wrong. Even 15 years ago when Jerry was still paying with The Dead (gratefully), I’m told by my friends who were grad students in bio-chem at Berkeley that what posed as LSD in the eighties and nineties was mostly a relatively weak isomer call ALD-50. Cool aid wouldn’t make it the real thing. And eat your hearts out. Aint it great to be old enough to actually remember Woodstock, not just to talk and quip about it as if no one found God there. I wasn’t there but not everyone complained about the rain and the mud. Ronald Reggae. Ha ha. Fart and Borax.
Ronald’s son Ron endorsed Obama.
Ronald’s daughter Patti posed nude and supported Hillary.
Darehead: Dying dynasties. The end of the beginning. WHY CAN’T WE LOVE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND STUFF?
Ronald’s son Michael planted his microphone in his old man’s corpse and became a talk show shouter. Mikey was not welcome around the White House run by his stepmom.
Layne:
You raging antiquated hippie, on point.
Keep looking over your shoulder for the DLC ninjas. You will be able tell them by their Ivy scarves or rep ties and poorly concealed hash pipes.
Ken, insightful as ever, but why did you not support your argument with the fact that Chrysler will soon be making K cars again?
I will hate to see the return of velor, though.
jagorev: Well, we do know he brought crack to the ‘hood.
Ken, your actue sense of snark totally flummoxes the AOL crowd, thank you!!!!1!
kenny boy hold his feet to the fire but the triple reverse troll freaks me out!!
This is by far my favorite AOL comment:
Fred Harris3:39AMDec 18th 2008
Only a liberal a**hole would write such claptrap. And about the comment on white, obese, single mothers,…if you’d said the same thing about blacks or any other so-called minority, people would call you a racist. But’s okay to M.F. whitey, now that we have a racist half-Negro as the president. You trash make me sick.
U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Whatever they’re paying you Ken, it’s not enough to deal with people who deem the Politico commentariat to be too intellectual.
STOP MANUPILATING THE FOLKS!!
HOW MUCH DID OBAMA PAID YOU TO PUBLISH THIS CRAP !!
80% folks don’t like OBAMA
Do you think by ‘folk’ he meant Volk ?
Mr. Layne, tear down this LOL!
But…but…He’s BLACK!
Ken is sick, in a bad way, as opposed to the yummy cummy perverto good sickness of many of our patriotic republican leaders.
Reagan? He was literally one of the worst presidents this country has ever had–on all levels. He should have gone to prison for the Iran-Contra-Dirty-Dealings corruption scandal, along with North, Bush I, Hall, and all of those other Nixon/Ford/Reagan/Bush psycho conservatives. They should have all gone to jail.
p-Sludge:
Mine’s Sharkleberry Fin colored.
thefrontpage: FrontPage either really doesn’t get it or just won’t play snarky. I summon THE BANHAMMER!!
dano: So…if he’s half negro, and a negro is 2/3 of a voter…that makes him, what, 3/5 of a voter? If he gets one of Biden’s kidneys, is that enough to legally be president?
“The new Reagan, all young and handsome and actually married to his first wife and actually a father to his children.”
The actual Reagan was married twice and many of his childrens (and ex-wife) hated him. So Obama is so much like Reagan, except in those ways that he is actually diametrically opposed to Reagan, that he IS Reagan, except in those ways that he isn’t.
CRIPES, I CANNNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE GET PAID MONEY TO WRITE FALDEROL LIKE THIS!
dano: it’s ok to motherfuck whitey?
populucious: Hey listen, I’ve been taking Falderol™ for my arthritis for two years now, and I don’t need a young whippersnapper like you bashing it!
Also, Ken, it seems you have succeeding in drawing back the truly insane and vile commenters by mocking St. Ronald of Reagan. Good job!(?)