Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain

[Gothampc]

Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#1

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:38pm

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[artscallion]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#2

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:55pm

This woman wrote speeches? For Obama? The writing in this article is so bad I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#2

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:00pm

Is it just me, or does she sound kind of crazy and stalker-y?

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#3

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:01pm

Well, someone has to, I guess.

"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'" -Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot

[KrissySim]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#4

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:02pm

A disgruntled speechwriter leaves the Democrats because she doesn't like the way the media has been playing certain things. I suppose you think this is it for Obama? Compared to what Republicans are doing in this campaign, her gripes are petty.

But it looks like we'll have to brace ourselves for 8+ years of Palin as President. The tide has clearly changed.

*sarcasm intended*
Updated On: 10/29/08 at 01:02 PM

[artscallion]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#5

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:08pm

I don't know. Mustard-South-Beach-Bathing-Suit-gate could really do us in. I'm still not sure what that was even about???

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

Updated On: 10/29/08 at 01:08 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#6

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:08pm

Yeah, I read the mustard thing three times. Still not getting it.

[Gothampc]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#7

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:11pm

I'll call the writer and ask her to put it in the form of a showtune so that you can understand it a little better.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#8

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:11pm

There's so much I don't understand - the Grey Poupon, "Joe the Plumber is right," comparing ANY of Sarah Palin's inanity to Obama's "57 States" comment, etc, etc.

I also don't get the in quotes mention that Biden "good looking" man. Who is she quoting there?

Whatever, Wendy. Who needs you?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#9

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:12pm

Why don't you just explain it, Goth?

[artscallion]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#10

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:14pm

I thought Obama wrote all his own speeches anyway. I smell Republican operative.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

[KrissySim]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#11

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:15pm

Well spotted again artscallion! I need to drink my morning coffee. I'm slow on these things this morning. (Long night of work, little sleep.)

[DottieD'Luscia]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#12

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:16pm

Wasn't "Not Joe the Plumber" one of their operatives, too?

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

[Calvin]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#13

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:18pm

Wow, she sounds like she has a lot of solid reasons to vote for McCain. Because Obama didn't fawn over her gift of Grey Poupon (that sounds like the Spring Awakening spinach incident!) and because the media is mean to Sarah Palin and some ignorant doofus -- seen his commentary on Israel yet? -- trying to milk his moment of fame.

I'm convinced.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#14

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:31pm

Except when attached to her kiss off letter, I can find no indication that she was ever actually a speechwriter for Obama. I see her credited to Edwards and Clinton all around the web, but nothing for Obama.

[Calvin]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#15

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:36pm

Maybe she was a speechwriter for him in the same way Charles Guiteau was a speechwriter for Ulysses S. Grant.

[shira467]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#16

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:40pm

Well, that made no sense.

Deet: Shira, I Love You!

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#17

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:40pm

"I'll call the writer and ask her to put it in the form of a showtune so that you can understand it a little better."

Funsy!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#18

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:43pm

Why can't Goth just explain it? Clearly, it's some big obvious anecdote we're all missing.

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#19

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:46pm

Leave him alone! He and Wendy Button are thinking up rhymes for "Poupon."

[blueroses]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#20

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:47pm

"See campaigns get complicated when you’ve written for so many Democrats. Not only had I written for Senator Edwards, but I had also been Senator Hillary Clinton’s speechwriter. Senator Joe Biden is a “good looking” man and his care after my father almost died from an aneurysm is the kind of kindness you never forget. When I saw Edwards at a traffic light in D.C. about a year after our meeting, he asked for help and I did and it was an honor to help him with his concession speech."

Is this paragraph supposed to be coherent?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#21

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:50pm

Biden was REALLY good looking about 30 years ago. Foxy!

[doodlenyc]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#22

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:51pm

Someone has paid her to write? Really? Really!

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[Calvin]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#23

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:52pm

It's pretty common for speechwriters to be picked up at traffic lights.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Obama Speechwriter Votes McCain#24

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:53pm

And there wasn't even any mention of aborted fetuses!