UPPITY

[oselle]

Senator Saxby Chambliss* of Georgia expresses his opinion on the proper demeanor that President Obama should adopt during his speech tomorrow night:

"I think he’s gonna have to express some humility based on what we’ve seen around the country this August and that’s not his inclination.”

Interesting, isn't it? Eight years of George Bush Jr. swaggering around like some half-assed John Wayne impersonator, strapping his scrotum up into a Top Gun flight suit and spouting off brainless, cliched machismo like "bring it on" and "with us or against us" and now we've suddenly got the good senator from Georgia worried about the president getting all uppity not being humble. Yes, very interesting.

When Texas secedes, they are welcome to take the whole rest of the Deep South with them.

*I will however say this much for the South -- it sure is unique. The very name "Saxby Chambliss" reads like something straight out of Flannery O'Connor and the South's rich, stinking gumbo of proud bigotry, ignorance, religious hysteria and nostalgia for an apartheid state makes it not just unique but irresistibly, horribly fascinating.

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oh good god. And yet that even doesn't annoy me as much as the fact that we're back again in Far Right Land where they've created the reality. Yeah, he's got to be real humble because "the people" have spoken. Enough of that nonsense where "the people" were the ones who voted for the guy. Nobody but them speaks for America!

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

While he's at it, he shouldn't talk to school children, either. 'Cause, you know, he might accidentally inspire them to want to do better in school. The bastard.

God, I don't know why I live in TX. Please don't hold it against me; I'm only here b/c of my sister!

[sixth-queen.livejournal.com]

Based on what *I* saw around the country this August, Obama has been TOO humble, and it's time for him to start kicking ass and taking names. It didn't escape me that Obama got out of town quite a lot, either on vacation, or to Africa, or on foreign policy business. I think he was purposely allowing Congress the freedom to show their hand.

Meanwhile, this week George Will was blathering that the President was everywhere it seemed, that he was too visible. ExCUSE me? 73 million people actively pulled a lever or filled in an oval or pressed a little square, saying that they WANTED Obama to be visible. Meanwhile, George Will, and his brothers-in-blather, are all over the TeeVee every damn Sunday and every other day on cable.

Republicans, like Saxby, really are something else. I don't think it even enters their brains that there are a lot of people out there who are smarter and more worthy of being in charge, or on TV, than them. They sit on the porch sipping mint juleps, and the po' folk are the help. Jus' the way it's always been ... They are the ones who scream loudest about the "working hard" meritocracy, yet they are the most dependent on nepotism, gladhanding, and -- most probably -- sexual favors.

[elanorgardner.livejournal.com]

*head desks repeatedly then takes Saxby's head and slams it on the desk*

I am moving. To Vermont perhaps, or Maine, or . . . any suggestions?