Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Krauthammer on Barack Hussein Pericles

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Tecumseh said...

Kraut must grate Pepe: Why is Krauthammer even published in this paper at all? He is blindly partisan and not interested in facts or analysis. He just throws rocks and makes stuff up. Yes, Pepe, yes. That's it.

8/27/2008 4:47 PM
N_A said...

Let's see, columns such as the ones depicted behind Barak are of Greek origin and are used in neoclassical architecture all over Washington.

Kraut is so irrelevant and ignorant or does he think we are?

Do Republicans know the difference in columns? How about the origins of democracy and the ideas that formed the United States?

Lincoln Memorial, Doric columns, origin, ancient Greece.
National Gallery of Art, Ionic columns, guess from where?
Supreme Court of the US, Corinthian columns, where might they be from?


Release these idiots from their ignorance (Brian be with them).

8/27/2008 6:44 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Krauthammer mocks Obama's imperial pomp; reacting to the Reuter's article.

"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.”

From this n_a deduces that either K. is so ignorant as not to know that the style of the columns "depicted behind Barak (sic) are of Greek origin", or K. thinks we are so ignorant-- and is then, presumably, using our unlearnedness to his advantage in some sneaky 5'th Column style trickery.

Now this is a most amazing deduction; one no ordinary mind could have had the sort of wit to scry. So what gave the game away to n_a? Was it the use of that fascistic Reuters any proper Sorite knows is a CIA front? Was it to have mocked Obama, and thus mocked the God who is one of us? Was it to have compared OHB to Napolean when, as 80,000 ululating souls know this day, that their's is a Sun King and not a midget with a nagging wife?
Nah, not even close. It was that the stinking Kraut did not use the occasion to engage us all in a declamation on columns. Not even a Dorkic one, or Ironic, never mind one dressed in fashionable leather. This as Kraut did wheelies while gawking -- like an ersatz Hawkins-- at the Benthic columns of the National Aquarium. A telling sign, if you, or I, or n_a ever saw one.

Bien sur, this compels our new bravo, against all the Bitter Angles of his nature, to question if Rethuglicans even know enough to discriminate between their columns. Which, if they do not, can only lead one to question if those indiscriminating Idiots even know the "origins of democracy and the ideas that formed the United States".
So, brothers, as you can see, with n_a one brilliant question leads to the next as surely as Inago follows 'n Iago. A new Socrates now strides across our little Agora, stunning the Full Retards with his scorpion's wit, and releasing them from the bonds of ignorance to, at last, dwell forever in the House of The Brian.

This time, Demosthenes weeps for Joy.

8/27/2008 8:57 PM
Mr roT said...

n_a, you really have brought some architectural erudition to our blog. Kudos.

Now, could you explain to us poor hoodlums why is it that your comment has any bearing on Kraut's perfectly reasonable mocking of Obama's hauteur?

It seems to me that just as in his trip to Berlin (a la Kennedy and Reagan) and his faux usurpation of the presidential seal he is trying to arrogate some symbolic dignity completely foreign to his nature, quality, or position.

Exactly as Kraut writes (I am sure one as cultured as yourself has no need for an explication du texte; I am providing it for the "others") just as Napoleon had achieved and earned his self-coronation (ignoring the then-customary Pope) before ever writing an autobiography, Obama has already afflicted us with any number of hopey-dopey audacities describing his thoughts and the dreams of the father that left him and his mother for the civility of Kenya (or is it Sudan?).

Not content with what he had done, he now arrogates to himself the symbols of the presidency without the dreary commonplace of awaiting the will of the voters (after all, many of them hew to the pleistocene line of the Pope and worse).

What is this? A bloody hickocracy?

Since Solon and Pericles, I guess, were residents of Athens, the birthplace of the architectural idiom we associate with democracy, (for Athens also had a hand in inventing that), it seems a tad discordant that a pretending tyrant (Greek use) grab this language for a bloody cult of personality show reminiscent of Nürnberg.

But I am sensitive about these things.

8/27/2008 11:37 PM

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