Ray's T for the D - Rugged Individualism and the Latest Fuss
Do you know that advertising always works on large herds of people, but almost never on the rugged individuals comprising the herd? How can that be? Does your common sense explain that?
Do you know that millions of individual Americanos arrive at work at the same time every day? How many of those rugged individualist Americanos actually want to arrive at work at the same time as everyone else, every day?
Do you know that the mohair goat subsidy checks all arrived in the mail boxes of the recipients on the same day? Those subsidy checks, arriving at the same time, were imperative to a way of life. Next day, after the subsidy checks finally came, the cafes would be crowded with happy cowboys, spending their hard earned loot, every one of those cowboys, a rugged individualist. Hey, where’s Pete? The dang guvment cut off his subsidy check.
Do you know that Hitler’s Germans were all rugged individualists, until they bunched up?
These are all facts, or informed opinions, that many know, and now, so do you.
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Mercy! Suffering through a weak moment I turned on the last potential queenlet versus kinglet fuss just in time to have Senator Obama aggravate me. He used the magic words, common sense. Senator Obama, if he doesn’t wise up in a hurry, is about to find out just how much sense he has in common with the ruggedly individualistiic Americano electorate, circa George Orwell’s worst nightmare.
I shall still vote for Senator Obama, if I get the chance. But I wish he would delete common sense from his vocabulary. It is embarrassing to hear him say, It’s just common sense. Common sense is mumbo jumbo reserved for the especially stupid.
Meantime, Senator Clinton could not resist joining up with the interrogators for a little old fashioned red-baiting. Jeez Louise! Well, everyone knows Senator Obama needs practice handling red-baiting. Might as well get some of that practice out of the way. Of course, if Senator Clinton is really good at red-baiting, once she gets through with Senator Obama, he won’t need any more practice.
Simultaneously, at the White Palace, the Kinglet is busy. One wonders if this Kinglet thinks enough of Senator McCain to leave the silverware. I bet not. No. Our precious Kinglet does not think that a way. He probably figures, McCain is so old and silly, he won’t miss the silverware.
Do you know that millions of individual Americanos arrive at work at the same time every day? How many of those rugged individualist Americanos actually want to arrive at work at the same time as everyone else, every day?
Do you know that the mohair goat subsidy checks all arrived in the mail boxes of the recipients on the same day? Those subsidy checks, arriving at the same time, were imperative to a way of life. Next day, after the subsidy checks finally came, the cafes would be crowded with happy cowboys, spending their hard earned loot, every one of those cowboys, a rugged individualist. Hey, where’s Pete? The dang guvment cut off his subsidy check.
Do you know that Hitler’s Germans were all rugged individualists, until they bunched up?
These are all facts, or informed opinions, that many know, and now, so do you.
_____
Mercy! Suffering through a weak moment I turned on the last potential queenlet versus kinglet fuss just in time to have Senator Obama aggravate me. He used the magic words, common sense. Senator Obama, if he doesn’t wise up in a hurry, is about to find out just how much sense he has in common with the ruggedly individualistiic Americano electorate, circa George Orwell’s worst nightmare.
I shall still vote for Senator Obama, if I get the chance. But I wish he would delete common sense from his vocabulary. It is embarrassing to hear him say, It’s just common sense. Common sense is mumbo jumbo reserved for the especially stupid.
Meantime, Senator Clinton could not resist joining up with the interrogators for a little old fashioned red-baiting. Jeez Louise! Well, everyone knows Senator Obama needs practice handling red-baiting. Might as well get some of that practice out of the way. Of course, if Senator Clinton is really good at red-baiting, once she gets through with Senator Obama, he won’t need any more practice.
Simultaneously, at the White Palace, the Kinglet is busy. One wonders if this Kinglet thinks enough of Senator McCain to leave the silverware. I bet not. No. Our precious Kinglet does not think that a way. He probably figures, McCain is so old and silly, he won’t miss the silverware.
posted by ray pistrum at Friday, April 18, 2008
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