Posts by giovanni tiso
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It really helps that they're all so beautiful. Aesthetic appeal goes a long way in modern politics...
That kinda disturbs me a bit, they look like the stock black family of American cinema from the 90s onwards: clean, beautiful, two or three young children, lots of sexual chemistry between the parents; I often think it's a revival of white families in 50s cinema except if you put whites in there it would be just too uninteresting and possibly icky too.
Anyways, I'm not knocking Obama for having a happy and beautiful family, it's just that when they are filmed in the same kinds of shot and with the same production values as a Will Smith or Denzel Washington joint, it's hard not to see what a tremendous asset it is, and to reflect on the fact that a single white man (much less a single white woman) just wouldn't have a shot at occupying that particular job, and their black counterparts even less so.
That said: they're all gorgeous and the photos are lovely.
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According to ABC the tally is 0-0 at the moment.
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For some reason this makes me irrationally furious.
Irrationally?
My mum's 77 and lives in a Berlusconi stronghold. When she goes out for a walk, people have learned to cross the street for fear of being harangued by her on what's wrong with the way the country is going. She holds EVERYONE responsible.
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__“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”__
Is that more palatable?
He was plagiarising GB Shaw and aside from that I'd say it's just as unapalatable and not nearly as insidiuosly clever.
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I guess it depends whose daughter it is.
It'd better not be mine. But, irrespective of daughters... what a tremendous, evil line.
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__Who was it that said the difference between a liberal and a conservative is having a daughter ?__
Somebody who was wrong.
Agreed, but what a tremendous line.
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You got the memo from Pablo's prison notebooks in the other thread, right?
Pricelessness.
Obama's grandmother just died
Sadness. I'm left hoping that the 109 year old daughter of a slave will make it.
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"Bomb and Bomberer" - classic! :)
Well yes, thank you, and by the way it's copyrighted. I don't want any of those United Soviet Socialist Republic of the Creative Commons guys to get any strange ideas.
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Never underestimate the ability of the American electorate to break your heart.
Nah, I think this time I shall make an exception.
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there, fixed that for you.
Heh... class.
I wish I was in the US right now, and that's not something I say very often. Tomorrow is going to be pretty special.