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Old Pio said:
My mother's all time favorite. He also did the bit with sounding out punctuation, also funny. I guess he was a world class pianist, but his performances generally only involved humerous, silly stuff at the piano. Truly a one of a kind.
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The first half of his concerts, sure he did silly stuff, like when asked to play something straight, lay perpendicular to the piano bench. However, in the second half, it would be much more serious (maybe one laugh or two), and was absolutely FABULOUS. He was definitely one of a kind.
 
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geezer said:
Woodward's new book looks interesting. At least, the summary is interesting. I still wouldn't buy one of these things.
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Agreed on both counts. These books are basically E! News versions of politics -- they are probably just total garbage, but they are also probably as much fun as a trashy gossip column.
 
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Fascinating post by Ezra Klein. Money quote:

What makes Obama’s most significant achievements unusual is that they roll out slowly. His key accomplishments were signed into law in his first term, but they won’t be fully implemented by November. But if Obama is reelected, the Affordable Care Act will be implemented, on schedule, in 2014. At that point, it’s likely permanent. The Dodd-Frank financial regulations will continue to be written and wrapped around Wall Street. At that point, they, too, are unlikely to be undone anytime soon.

Conversely, if Obama isn’t reelected, both laws are likely to be fully or mostly repealed. And so the most lasting changes Obama has signed into law depend upon his reelection not just to survive, but to simply begin. But that’s all they really need. They don’t require another vote in Congress, or the buy-in of House Republicans. They just need to be left alone. They just need Barack Obama rather than Mitt Romney to be sitting in the Oval Office.
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I'd add the same is true for getting out of Afghanistan in 2014.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
The first half of his concerts, sure he did silly stuff, like when asked to play something straight, lay perpendicular to the piano bench. However, in the second half, it would be much more serious (maybe one laugh or two), and was absolutely FABULOUS. He was definitely one of a kind.
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IIRC a pretty good businessman, too. Raised cornish game hens, I think. In our house we only saw him on Ed Sullivan (don't even think about suggesting some other program), never in concert.
 
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Old Pio said:
IIRC a pretty good businessman, too. Raised cornish game hens, I think. In our house we only saw him on Ed Sullivan (don't even think about suggesting some other program), never in concert.
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Yes, in Connecticut. He was on "What's My Line?" with the rock cornish hen business.

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geezer said:
Is Chicago in particular any worse than Detroit, St. Louis, Miami, or Bakersfield? Has "Mitt" Romney presented any specific plans for fighting crime? Just curious.
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So is the President now supposed to be Batman or Commissioner Gordon? Solid take.
 
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geezer said:
Is Chicago in particular any worse than Detroit, St. Louis, Miami, or Bakersfield? Has "Mitt" Romney presented any specific plans for fighting crime? Just curious.
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This summer, yes. The president has shown himself to be right on top of things when the "victim" is black and the "perp" is white. For some strange, unfathomable reason, when it's black on black, he's suddenly too busy to notice. Law enforcement is generally a local matter. So nobody on the federal level is going to have a plan. But our president, who's so vocal about the shortcomings of the Cambridge police department and law enforcement in Sanford, has been mute here. But you knew that, didn't you?
 
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Slap Shot said:
So is the President now supposed to be Batman or Commissioner Gordon? Solid take.
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Solid take. . .for obtuseness. If you folks just keep ignoring the point, maybe it'll go away. Or maybe the Blackstone Rangers will run out of ammunition and stop slaughtering people on the streets of the president's "home" town. The weather will turn cold soon, that ought to slow 'em down some.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Yes, in Connecticut. He was on "What's My Line?" with the rock cornish hen business.

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"What's My Line" was the other program for which the punishment was death to even think about suggesting an alternative. This appearance may have been the source of that nugget of widsom about little, bitty chickens.
 
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Kepler said:
Non-white politicians are responsible when non-whites commit crimes. Didn't you know that?
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Geez Kep

There are bully pulpits and then there are BULLY PULPITS. The President has the biggest bully pulpit in this country, bar none. If Obama would say in a news conference that the future of Chicago is dying in her streets and it has to stop, needs to stop, it lends a bit more weight than the Chicago papers or mayor or the odd alderman or two.

Would it stop the violence? Doubt it, but the moral high ground is nice to have now and then.
 
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joecct said:
Geez Kep

There are bully pulpits and then there are BULLY PULPITS. The President has the biggest bully pulpit in this country, bar none. If Obama would say in a news conference that the future of Chicago is dying in her streets and it has to stop, needs to stop, it lends a bit more weight than the Chicago papers or mayor or the odd alderman or two.

Would it stop the violence? Doubt it, but the moral high ground is nice to have now and then.
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This is usually a presidental imperative. Afterall, look at Bush's success in stopping Houston's violence...and Reagan's success in stopping LA violence.
 
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This is usually a presidental imperative. Afterall, look at Bush's success in stopping Houston's violence...and Reagan's success in stopping LA violence.
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Then explain his "imperative" to speak out on Cambridge and Sanford. You can weasel, duck and dodge and change the subject all you want, but the record here is clear: black victims of white perps appear to be more important to His Racistness than black victims of black perps. Also, white victims of voter intimidation by blacks aren't deserving of any presidential love either.

Don't demean yourself any more than absolutely necessary by denying this obvious double standard. You can make the customary "but blacks were held in slavery and we have to make allowances for Jim Crow" argument. But please don't deny what is clear: based on his public utterances (or lack thereof), a reasonable person would conclude this president doesn't care much about horrific black on black violence (in his "home" town, yet). But he cares a great deal about his mouthy black Harvard professor buddy being cuffed and stuffed by white cops in Cambridge. A great deal.
 
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Kepler said:
Non-white politicians are responsible when non-whites commit crimes. Didn't you know that?
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Right. They're only "responsible" when whites commit crimes against blacks. Then, hoo boy, are they ever "responsible."

Of course, "responsibility" is not the point of my posts on this subject. Nor is his legal responsibility when it comes to fighting crime. My only concern is for his verbal flatulence at one category of crime. And his constipation at another. As the self-described fooking intellectual around here, you d*mn well know it. Having jumped feet first into a couple of racial situations, it's too late for His Panderness to now say: "Not my farking yob, man." And it's too late for you to say it for him.
 
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Old Pio said:
You can weasel, duck and dodge and change the subject all you want, but the record here is clear: black victims of white perps appear to be more important to His Racistness than black victims of black perps. Also, white victims of voter intimidation by blacks aren't deserving of any presidential love either
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So in essence, Obama's inaction on inner city violence is to be thought of differently than that of Bush or Reagan because he's black. I see.
 
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I suspect that you're walking into a trap, 5mn, when you suggest that Reagan and Bush did less to reduce crime rates during their presidencies than Obama. But I'm not going to look it up.

One of the things that bothers me about shunning Mexican labor (I never said racism) is that Washington's bumper apple crop is now rotting on the tree because all the pickers are being turned away at the border. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
 
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