Grandpère to me: "I think some of the people who were most vocal against Obama are beginning to reconsider."
Me to Grandpère in a rather loud voice: "Yes! The assholes who were calling Obama a Muslim and a socialist, and saying that Al Sharpton would be in the Cabinet are beginning to reconsider!"
Doesn't matter that we told them so. Their eyes are opened! They see the light! All is now right with the world.
That's what I said, uncensored, without asterisks, so that's how I wrote it. Sorry if I offend anyone.
You don't speak in asterisks!
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked! Shocked!
What I want to know is this...what made Grandpere make the statement?
ReplyDeleteAnd Mimi, after the tatoo, nothing you do or say can shock me. ;-)
Cheers,
Doxy
Mimi, you're so sexy when you use that potty mouth.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't trust my mouth or my fists if I met an anti Obama moron. We luckily don't have any here at all - except a few very quiet Americans in the main cities here who crawled out of their holes on election day and then dissolved just as quickly. I didn't know there were any Republicans here. I thought we only had the sensible Americans who left home and Bushism for a better life here. I've met plenty of them - lovely people, every one of them.
ReplyDeleteI also am doing some rethinking about Obama. The most thought-provoking fact about him is that he's keeping the Bush Tax Cuts, and may even extend them. He's also thinking about staying in Iraq for a while.
ReplyDeleteI'll say this, Obama has certainly surprised me. He isn't even President yet, and already he's done a couple of 180s. At least with Clinton, you had to wait a couple of months into his term before Clinton did his first 180 on the Middle Class Tax Cut, thereafter dubbed "Tax Cuts for the Rich".
Do you think that Obama plans on becoming the Third Bush President?
Mimi, I think you should do some re-thinking on accepting anonymous posts.
ReplyDeleteMimi - I didn't see any obscenities, such as, war, famine, genocide, injustice,hate, etc. Where would I insert the asterisks in those words? Excuse my language.
ReplyDelete"Do you think that Obama plans on becoming the Third Bush President?"
Anon-We must be patient. Change doesn't occur overnight. It took 8 years to get in this mess, it will take a while to get out of it.
Making sense out insanity is a tough job, Anon...but, President Obama will be able to unravel the dishonesty, manipulating and greed that has now clogged the ECONOMIC wheels after these past years of nonstop selfishness! Bush and his deceptive pals will go off and entertain oneanother with blood on their hands for the rest of their lives (hey, I undestand that Alcoholic Bush has been drink´n again for quite sometime, hey what´s a little wine?)...Lord knows, anybody that strives for decency or decent company for themselves, their family, their children and their community will NOT be seen with these dangerous psychopaths...soon, they will be all alone with NO PLACE to go!
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, (swooning). A younger man and a gay man calling me sexy? You made my day, love.
ReplyDeleteSteph, I live amongst them. We avoid certain subjects in conversations once they speak their minds, and I speak my mind.
Anon, if Obama extends the tax cuts beyond their expiration date, I will be furious, along with many other Democrats.
He may stay in Iraq until they throw us out in 2011, but he will not have 140,000 troops there. Our military is at the breaking point, and Afghanistan is going bad. He will draw down the numbers Iraq drastically, without being reckless.
Do you think that Obama plans on becoming the Third Bush President?
God forbid! No, I do not! We could not have two in a row of such abject failures as president.
If you post again, please make up a name and sign your post. I get the anonymice mixed up.
JCF, is that good enough? I give anonymous commenters a chance or to to sign a name, and if they don't, then, they're gone.
Leonardo, I would also suggest to the Bushies that they take care about traveling outside the country.
ReplyDeleteMimi - I didn't see any obscenities, such as, war, famine, genocide, injustice,hate, etc.
ReplyDeleteSara, exactly. Where would we put the asterisks?
Here's a link to the video of Obama's formal announcement of the names of his economic team. He said that the economy would get worse before it gets better. I think that is a realistic assessment. And we still have to endure Bush for 56 more days.
Ah, Mimi, I had no idea that you could talk that way!! I am highly offended!!! Not...
ReplyDeleteYou just tell it like it is, Girl!
GrandFrau Mimi:
ReplyDeleteI cannot be optimistic about Obama NOT being the Third Bush and serving the Fourth Bush Term. It has something to do with "Deeds, not Words", though "Words Mean Things". I think Barak is getting FAR TOO CHUMMY with George.
Wolfgang von Bydlo
And you, an Older Woman of the Caucasian Persuasion! I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you! And offended!
ReplyDeleteSusan, and you thought you knew me.
ReplyDeleteWolfgang, if you'd like to address me in German, the word would be "Großmutter". I looked it up.
Barack is not even president yet. Let's wait and see. I know that I've expressed a few doubts about some of his appointments, but I think he will do well by us.
Padre Mickey, I know, I know. Please don't tell the Lovely Mona. It's bad enough having you think ill of me.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you are a Großmutter at all, though if you keep swearing some might thing that's Gross....
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IT, what can I say? That's how I talk in the privacy of my home - and now, in the privacy of my blog.
ReplyDeleteI would have been more offended if you hadn't called them assholes!
ReplyDeleteI listened to the Big O's press conference this morning in Chicago. He said nuthin' about extending the Bush tax cuts. The only thing unresolved is whether to eliminate them or let them expire in a year. He talked about the fat cats carrying their fair share of the weight for a change.
ReplyDeleteMimi darlin', make sure Grandpere is behind you before you swoon.
SCG, thanks for the vote of confidence.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, you are correct. Obama said nothing about extending the tax cuts.
Love, I swooned in my chair, so I was fine.
I like to put my feet up before I swoon.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I'd really enjoy calling them is "Prisoner # _____".
I'm with JohnieB: I'm waiting for the war crimes trials and the treason trials and the chance to see the Bushies led away in orange jumpsuits and leg irons. Of course, I also think people who voted for Bush and Cheney (esp. in 2004, when the evidence was in)should have to pay a penalty too. Maybe they could be required to subsidize the care and support of one injured US veteran of the war for the rest of his life, or pay reparations and support to an Iraqi family displaced, traumatized and impoverished by the bloody war, or spend six months in NOLA rebuilding ruined houses.
ReplyDeleteI think Grandpere may be right. Obama didn't win by a landslide, and in fact didn't even get a majority of white votes (even here in heavily Democratic Maryland, which really shocked me). Yet Andrew Kohut reported a week or so ago that according to his polling, about two-thirds of the population are now optimistic that Obama will be able to handle the problems ahead and think that things will get better! I think that's amazing.
I think he is going to govern from the center and pull in everybody who can help come up with solutions. The situation is so drastic that it provides an opportunity to get out of fixed patterns of thinking and ideologies that have been blinding people to what is really going on. The people he appointed today as his economic advisers don't seem to be ideologues; they are just very smart and very seasoned people, with a remarkable range of experience to bring to their task. It will be difficult to adjust to having people of that sort running the government, just as it is a shock to have a President (-elect) who can speak in complete, grammatical sentences and complete a thought, even when responding to questions at a press conference.
People are going to get behind the new President (even before he is sworn in) because they know their own livelihoods and future financial security may depend upon his being able to lead us out of this mess. Even the officials of the outgoing maladministration know that their own asses are on the line. Forget about a 'legacy' (it's way too late for that), it's about whether their own stock holdings and other assets are going to become worthless. The good thing about this is that the right-wing operatives who dogged the Clintons, and who would surely like to bring Obama down with their slime machine, are not likely to succeed. People are going to have other things on their minds besides whatever crap the neocons can invent or insinuate about him.
I just LOVE being right too!
ReplyDeleteThis is for Wolfgang:
ReplyDeleteBarack has a "c" in it.
And Mimi, I'm shocked at your language. Shocked.
I don't think you are a Großmutter at all, though if you keep swearing some might thing that's Gross....
ReplyDeleteIT
I'd probably go with the more affectionate and familiar "Oma."
"Oma" is, indeed, much better.
ReplyDeleteDo you kiss Grandpère with that mouth!
ReplyDeleteLove you Grandmère Mimi, and I think you're right on!
Lindy, I do, but I'm beginning to see just a trace of hesitation on GP's part.
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