Leonard Pitts The Miami Herald

February 3, 2010

Leonard Pitts
The Miami Herald
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Miami, Florida 33132-1693

RE: “Man bites Dog” – Garbo speaks has been replaced with Obama speaks. Some comments on Obama as savior of us all except for most of those nasty Republicans.

Mr. Pitts,

“But time and again, he returned to his central theme:
The need to draw back from the shrill, slash-and-burn
tactics and rhetoric that reached a high mark – or,
if you prefer, a low mark – last year.”
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“Last year”? Rahm Emanuel, and isn’t he like a gentle spring rain, referred to members of his own party as “fucking retards”. My calendar tells me that last week is this year. Then you tell me that if we hold hands and sing all the verses of Kumbaya “the voice of the turtle will be heard in the land” and we’ll probably all be farting through silk Alas, it’s probably too late for Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Joe the Plumber.

Here’s a light bulb popping moment.

The United States is not a parliamentary democracy.

The President does not have to go before Congress every Wednesday and explain his policies du jour. He is not subject to hostile, gotcha questions, frequently from his own party. I think we can we stipulate that Obama is no threat to Churchill or Thatcher?

Last week I finally figured out why Nancy Pelosi jumps up and down like she has bailando guzanos in her knickers. She is a part time shill for Pilates, Nutri-System, and Botox.

Would it be “shrill and slash-and-burn” for me to say if the gentle lady has but one more face lift she’ll be wearing a beard? What with President Bush being compared to Hitler, what with Senator Richard “Little Dick” Durbin comparing American GIs to friggin’ Nazi SS storm troopers I think not.

For every “birther” there is a “truther”. Does one cancel the other?

Tu quoque is still an effective tool when the game is Rhetoric.

Here’s light bulb popping moment #2 plus a teaching moment.

The Democrats have the White House. They have unassailable majorities in both houses. If it were a straight party line vote the Democrats would win. Why do they need Republicans?

Speaking of “shrill and slash-and –burn tactics”, did last year’s political arguments reach the heights, or depths, of 1800? They did not.

In 1864 the Democratic Party and the New York Times agreed that Abraham Lincoln was a “gorilla”. Did anyone say that Obama had many simian qualities? No.

Rahm Emanuel, he of “fucking retard” fame, apologized to someone named Shriver. In typical modern American Liberal fashion it was an apology to those who took offense. Toad Shriver who, along with his cousin Congressman Cementhead Kennedy, are Winners Emeritus of the Lucky Sperm Club, would have said it was OK if Potty Mouth Rahm had been photographed conducting a tutorial called “Pedophilia and Necrophilia” – Be The First On Your Block.

“Shrill and slash-and-burn” are what keeps this place free.

Why is “Sit down and be quiet” the perpetual mantra of modern American Liberals?

“Free men speak with free tongues.”





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