You could at least wait until the new regime ACTUALLY TAKES OFFICE. (Usually I like Ted Rall’s comics, but his obvious disdain for Obama is getting old already)
Mes amis je vous assure
Que le temps est bien dur
Y faut pas s’décourager
Ça va bien vite r’commencer
De l’ouvrage y va n’aouère
Pour tout le monde cet hiver
Y faut ben donner le temps
Au nouveau gouvernement
(My friends I assure you
that times are quite hard
but we should’nt give up
It will start back very soon
There will be work
For everyone this winter
We just have to give time
To the new government)
Old french-canadian tune from the 1930’s by Mary Traverse aka La Bolduc.
Wait for them to take office? Why? At this moment they’re sitting around doing nothing waiting for January 20?
I’m with Ted. I don’t disdain Obama for the fun of it. Obama has been hard at work before January 20, and has already done quite a bit to deserve disdain.
I suppose I could say that, by your tone, Humphries, I believe that you’ll love Obama in the future regardless of what he does. But that’s an empty, reflexive, defensive kind of thing to say. It doesn’t say or mean much.
If Obama were to do the right thing in the future, I’d love him. But the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so I believe there’s good reason to expect more “disdaining” in the future.
HA! The line says “tomorrow’s conventional wisdom today,” and it rings true. Here we are in 2010, and they STILL are saying “Be patient…give the new regime a chance.”
Horsehead1 over 15 years ago
A pinto rat?
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 15 years ago
Hey Ted, how about taking your own advice (OK, your own rat’s advice).
joylederman over 15 years ago
You could at least wait until the new regime ACTUALLY TAKES OFFICE. (Usually I like Ted Rall’s comics, but his obvious disdain for Obama is getting old already)
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 15 years ago
Mes amis je vous assure Que le temps est bien dur Y faut pas s’décourager Ça va bien vite r’commencer De l’ouvrage y va n’aouère Pour tout le monde cet hiver Y faut ben donner le temps Au nouveau gouvernement
(My friends I assure you that times are quite hard but we should’nt give up It will start back very soon There will be work For everyone this winter We just have to give time To the new government)
Old french-canadian tune from the 1930’s by Mary Traverse aka La Bolduc.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 15 years ago
the second paragraph is a translation.
Thanx for the effort, SammyD!
Lavocat over 15 years ago
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
geezjan over 15 years ago
Wait for them to take office? Why? At this moment they’re sitting around doing nothing waiting for January 20?
I’m with Ted. I don’t disdain Obama for the fun of it. Obama has been hard at work before January 20, and has already done quite a bit to deserve disdain.
HUMPHRIES over 15 years ago
geezjan, “disdain”, hard word. By your tone I believe you’ll be doing a lot of “disdaining” in the future, reguardless what Pres Obama does.
geezjan over 15 years ago
I suppose I could say that, by your tone, Humphries, I believe that you’ll love Obama in the future regardless of what he does. But that’s an empty, reflexive, defensive kind of thing to say. It doesn’t say or mean much.
If Obama were to do the right thing in the future, I’d love him. But the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so I believe there’s good reason to expect more “disdaining” in the future.
Jeffritoman over 15 years ago
Whatever happened to “The only thing we need to fear is…fear itself!”
I’d trade Ted Rall for FDR any day.
yohannbiimu over 13 years ago
HA! The line says “tomorrow’s conventional wisdom today,” and it rings true. Here we are in 2010, and they STILL are saying “Be patient…give the new regime a chance.”