tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post3581227911620617065..comments2023-08-10T05:24:20.775-04:00Comments on Razing the Bar: ObamiconsAndy Whitmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010130934552315074noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-30705503053219085092009-01-30T08:59:00.000-05:002009-01-30T08:59:00.000-05:00Re: the notion of linking governments with hope:"I...Re: the notion of linking governments with hope:<BR/><BR/>"It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1862<BR/><BR/>"We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981<BR/><BR/>"Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation, a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself." -- John F. Kennedy, 1961<BR/><BR/>You would think, reading some of these comments, that Barack Obama had invented or subverted the word.Andy Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04010130934552315074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-83272865673189128662009-01-30T01:37:00.000-05:002009-01-30T01:37:00.000-05:00Gulag, you can have me; I miss borscht. Will there...Gulag, you can have me; I miss borscht. Will there be black bread?Eriolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18202802872007912133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-57218670258460091092009-01-30T00:24:00.000-05:002009-01-30T00:24:00.000-05:00well put cnbwell put cnbanchorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234614641345390208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-24288182008097580342009-01-29T09:46:00.000-05:002009-01-29T09:46:00.000-05:00Ees alzo better than Boosh.Ees alzo better than Boosh.woodsmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17355906547870569949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-3435238053054780392009-01-28T14:51:00.000-05:002009-01-28T14:51:00.000-05:00I like this one of Bill Clinton.Granted that it's ...I like <A HREF="http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/entries/48-grope.html" REL="nofollow">this one</A> of Bill Clinton.<BR/><BR/>Granted that it's possible to take these things too seriously, but I still maintain that it's creepy to have pictures of <I>a political figure</I> surmounting a word like "HOPE". Someone has got their priorities mixed up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-24739576984237158752009-01-28T13:29:00.000-05:002009-01-28T13:29:00.000-05:00Andy, that's so last week! ;)I was perusing Facebo...Andy, that's so last week! ;)<BR/><BR/>I was perusing Facebook and found Josh Jackson's Obamicon, then I made my own. One of my facebook friends swiped a photo of Aretha from the inauguration, Obamiconned it, with the word "Hat." It's perfection!Natsthenamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03027430649885763618noreply@blogger.com