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Jindal Defends Those Who Want Obama to Fail

Mar 25, 2009 10:53

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bobby jindal

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cirisse March 25 2009, 15:27:31 UTC

"This is political correctness run amok."

Please, someone make this phrase stop.

mindrtist March 25 2009, 19:58:00 UTC

I absoultely love the run amok part though :)

from word_ancestry - run amok

-Sometimes spelled run amuck, this phrase means 'to behave in a wild or unruly manner, to be frenzied or out of control.'

In English, this was first recorded in 1672 and comes from the Malay noun amok. Malay is a language spoken by certain peoples in Southeast Asia and Borneo. In these cultures, amok is the name of a psychic disturbance with symptoms of depression followed by a manic phase and a strong urge to kill. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to bring amok into their language, calling such symptomatic Malays Amuco in The Book of Duarte Barbosa, which was completed in the early 16th century.

miss_world13 March 25 2009, 20:35:52 UTC

Etymology is the best thing...ever.

Dear Republican party, angi_is_altered March 25 2009, 15:33:15 UTC

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Re: Dear Republican party, chaobell March 25 2009, 17:13:11 UTC

Oh my God, that is epic and beautiful. *saved*

Re: Dear Republican party, biichan March 25 2009, 17:36:46 UTC

That is indeed awesome. Unfortunately, it's distorting the page something crazy for me. *saves, then adblocks*

nandexdame March 25 2009, 15:39:27 UTC

"He made a point to criticize Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a "spending spree" that he said "is costing the taxpayers more than the Iraq war, more than the Vietnam War, and, near and dear to my heart, even more than the Louisiana Purchase.""

At least this time we'll be doing a spending spree in our own neglected country and not some other one.

chibirhm March 25 2009, 15:43:22 UTC

I love how he mentions the Louisiana Purchase which was a) basically like the best/cheapest deal in the history of deals and it's pretty much impossible to recreate because hello, no country is ever going to be that stupid again and also NO ONE BUYS LAND ANYMORE, SO INVALID POINT IS INVALID, b)done over two hundred years ago, so clearly, inflation is totally not an issue!

BACK TO YOUR CORNER, SIR.

mindrtist March 25 2009, 20:27:06 UTC

I'm waiting for Palin to talk about Seward's Folly. She would have been able to see Russia from her hallway. What a deal!

kerrence March 25 2009, 15:41:37 UTC

how do you make it any more clear to these people?

IF OBAMA'S POLICIES FAIL
AMERICA FAILS
YOUR LIFE WILL NOT
BE
ANY
BETTER

being able to say "I told you so" will not fix the fucking country, you asinine pieces of shit.

chibirhm March 25 2009, 15:45:58 UTC

When I e-mailed this to my Dad he was like "Well, didn't you want Bush to fail?" and I was like "No, Dad, I woke up every morning hoping against hope that maybe that day would be the day he didn't fail, and he just fucked up spectacularly as, lie, a sidebar."

And I mean, if we're here because one president failed, do we really want another president to go failing right afterwards? I mean, really?

dantheorangeman March 25 2009, 15:50:15 UTC

that's not completely true. Here's a metaphor. Somebody is hired to kill a person, we'll name him Mark. Mark wants the killer to fail? correct? Do you see now?

kerrence March 25 2009, 15:51:03 UTC

oh, you

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gmth March 25 2009, 15:43:04 UTC

"My answer to the question is very simple: 'Do you want the president to fail?' It depends on what he is trying to do."

LOL. That's not a simple answer. It's a total avoidance of the question.