I see Obama got the boogieman. Good for him. Can’t say I liked watching my countrymen acting the fool at the news, as though their team had just won the Super Bowl or something, but given the predilection of American politicians for describing warfare in sporting terms I suppose they can hardly be blamed. But I turned off the TV anyway.
I do have one question, though. Who do you suppose the new boogieman is going to be?
Meanwhile, here’s an old boogieman for you, courtesy of Catfish Hodge.
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Its already done, O’G. Obama the Boogieman, since the idea on the whackjob right is to take power rather than focus on a real enemy. Just trying to figure out how they will do it. Having Obama on TV holding bin Laden’s scalp will at least send these guys back to the drawing board for a few days.
But mark my words, the next topic of Internet Insanity will indeed be “the long form” of Osama bin Laden’s death certificate. Any takers?
No takers here, K. I expect OBL had a few tapes in the can when the SEALs sent him to Paradise, the timed release of which should help sow the seeds of doubt.
Meanwhile, the Repugs are already crediting Dubya for boldly … uh … masterfully … umm … well, you know. Something. An idea that Steve Benen deflates with ease.
Just read Benen’s piece. All I can say is “bring on the next asteroid”
May 15 can NOT come soon enough! The only news I’ll be seeing in Italy is La Gazzetta dello Sport and the Giro on TV for the next three months.
I saw Peter King heaping credit on Obama for getting OBL on the Today show this morning. I think he must know something that we don’t, but I have figured out what it could be. Maybe that Obama is a more of a bad-ass mofo than the right gives him credit for being?
Without a doubt Obama is the boogieman!
We did not have to here more about the big Wedding, that was almost as good as the killing. Seeing the TV interruption and hearing that Bin Laden was killed, I have to admit made me feel goood!
China.
China makes a good boogieman. They want “our” oil (you know, the stuff under those other people’s sand); they hold most of our markers; and like us, they have The Big One. Plus they speak better English than we do and make all the iShit we can’t live without.
Obama makes a good boogieman his own bad self, but only for certain segments of the population (hard right, hard left). Plus he’s an eight-year wonder, tops. China has more shelf life.
But the US vs China relationship is entirely, as they say, a sordid affair between consenting adults.
No matter who the next “boogieman” is, he better look out for this kid:
http://youtu.be/EraG6MTXwwA
We just had an election in the Great White North, and God help us, the Conservative’s (Republican Party North) have taken over Parliament. So, is there any chance you can get the Canadian Prime Minister named as the next boogieman? I’d love to see a Special Forces team drag his ass away in the middle of the night. But then again, there’d be another ass-hat take his place in about 10 seconds. It’s gonna be a rough 4 years…
Will you guys in Canada soon get the “benefits” of the famous, right-wing “trickle-down (supply side, or simply voodoo) economics”? Will Canadians start moving to the USA, reversing the trends of the past?
Larry, Stephen Harper has made it well known that he plans to remove “barriers” for big business (ie, those nasty taxes), get “tough on crime” (longer prison sentences and building a crap load of new jails), and privatizing as much public services as possible. He’s a native of Calgary (Texas North), and has always said Canada should have followed Bush into Iraq. So, have you got a spare room in Italy?
Heard that story on NPR this morning. Sounds like the liberal factions are blowing apart, leaving government to the right-threaded wingnuts.
And despite those promises/threats, enough Canucks voted for this guy? I thought Americans were some of the dumbest folks on earth but I guess our northern neighbors are not much brighter…but THEY at least have a reasonable healthcare system — with this Harper fellow dismantle that too? Your reference to Calgary as Texas North made me laugh as some Tejas money-men are trying to build (here in South Dakota/Iowa) a refinery to process that lovely “tar-sand” oil the Calgarians are scooping out of the earth and cooking the oil out of….by the time this thing gets built and starts spewing its filth into our air — we plan to be safely retired in Italy full-time.