Jimmy Rollins: Do You Complain About The Cheers? And The VP Candidates Will Be….
Message to Jimmy Rollins. Relax already. You have been cheered for eight years. Philadelphians love your spirit and your talent. You are a winner, but winning is more about just winning. It is also learning about to deal with highs and lows. After all, you didn’t complain when adulation was rained down on you quite consistently.
The problem is very clear. You do not understand the viewpoint, or the general perspective of Philadelphia fans. Philadelphia area fans are the most forgiving and passionate fans in the nation. But they also reserve the right to let athletes have it when they don’t live up to the Philadelphia standard. The Philadelphia standard is one of demanding excellence. Philadelphia fans get more angry about an athlete showing up for work late, or not trying hard enough. We all have slumps in life, even the talented ones like you. So get over it, and stop trying to explain yourself. You have a right to get angry. But understand that when you complain, the fans WILL react.
VP CHOICES -
Did you really think I was going to predict who will be selected for VP? Well… sort of.
For the Democrats, the nominees will be either Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, or Sam Nunn. Biden and Nunn are the stronger choices. Bayh is loved in Indiana, but he does not appear to have the “command presence” need for the job.
For the Republicans, the nominees will be Charles Crist, Mr. Sunshine State, Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman. Of the three, Lieberman and Ridge are the tops, but Crist is VERY PERSONABLE, and youthful.
Please understand that my batting average on these forecasts is lower than Jimmy Rollin’s batting average.
What do you think?
SEEING RED
The Russian blitz of Georgia, halted when the Putin gang feared Western economic reprisals, was symbolic of the bloody Russian history of rampage and destroy. There was no reason for the Red Army to begin demolishing towns after the strategic objectives were met. The conspiratorial Kremlin militarists are back in charge. Diplomatically, our response was mild. Sometimes strong words are important and the White House reaction was too soft. It got stronger by the day, but it was too little, too late. The strongest reaction was an article by Joe Biden, who insisted that Russia had to stand down . Secretary of State Rice did a good job, but overall, we needed military maneuvers, or something, to back up our resolve.
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The Red Army is in Georgia? They have time machines? EVERYBODY PANIC!
Rice did a nice job of showing that there was no real U.S. support by getting the Georgian president to sign an overwhelmingly one-sided cease fire treaty. It’s an embarrassment and another huge black eye for the U.S. on the global stage. Nice one, Dubya.
What is it with you and people named Jimmy, Larry? First Jimmy Carter, and now Jimmy Rollins. Jimmy Rollins is right to call out Philly fans. I’ve lived in several cities, and the fans here are more loutish than those I encountered anywhere else by at least a factor of five. It’s too bad that Philly fans don’t hold themselves to the purported “standard of excellence” you believe they demand of the players.
While McSame wants the independent voter, he’s not going to choose Holy Joe Lieberman or Ridge as a running mate. Core GOP voters would stay away from the polls in droves. The voices of the right wing noise machine would go so shrill that only right wingnuts would be able to hear them.
I’m thinking about starting a charity to send compressors to Georgia to help them with access to FREE AIR, which is what they need in these dire times. Who’s with me?
How is possible for Jimmy Rollins to refer to Phils fans as “front runners” when the Phillies have won exactly one champioship in 125 years & still fill the park almost every game ? Boorish behavior ? You bet.Uniformed ? Yeah, most.A number of things but not front runners.
VPs-Romney & Webb.
I don’t why Georgia provoked Russia.They seriously misjudged how the Russians would respond & probably over estimated how much help we would provide,if any.If my understanding is correct,the people of the break away provinces don’t identify with Georgia at all.Whatever folks,it’s Cold War Redux.And John McCain is the right man at the right time.
YFAP, I respectfully disagree on McCain. He the wrong guy at the wrong time. Aside from your Vietnam and aviation connection, your judgement is clouded. SAMs flying by nonwithstanding.
Mitt Romney.
Kathleen Sebelius.
Biden, Liberman and Nunn aren’t even on the short list. Crist and Ridge are being floated because FL and PA are swing states but aren’t being considered seriously. Bayh is from INand Obama from IL; this ticket makes little sense. Jimmy Rollins has a better chance to be selected than this list of pretenders.
Speaking of Jimmy Rollins, once the doll of Philly he has been firmly and permanently supplanted by Chase Utley. Jimmy is having a hard time adjusting. He’s a top 6 SS but not the best player on the Phils by a long shot.
This just in-John Kerry is being considered for VP.C’mon,who saw this one coming ?
Larry,I think it’s time to move beyond the VP choices.Lets get into cabinet selections.I’ve got Ridge or Hagel as SECDEF,maybe Lieberman as Secretary of State & perhaps that woman(forgive me,her name escapes me )from HP in some role.
Carly Fiorina his Campaign Mgr
John freak’in Kerry? Is he still alive?
Yes,he’s still alive.And,as a bonus,we get Terese.
OOOJ-Help me fill out President McCain’s cabinet.
This is a typical larry kane comment – his driving force is more to not offend anybody than that of taking a position on the merits. He just never seems to take much of a stand.
Larry never takes a stand and he has an unusual affections toward Joe Biden, Tom Ridge, Ed Rendell, and Alen Sector.
I thing Rielle Hunter’s baby belongs to Edwards. He is telling a convoluted lie to spare his wife further pain and hopes the truth does not come out until after her death. Rielle is getting paid nicely to go along with the story and refuses paternity test after ABC news show, didnt list father on birth certificate. Let me tell you, a piece a trash like her would have the father on there to be sure to get child support, unless she had an iron clad deal from Edwards to be taken care of and a promise they could be together once Elizabeth becomes a corpse. No man goes to a hotel at 2am to see another man’s baby from a woman he was previously pumping- that’s just a fact of human nature.
John Edwards is the father!
Maybe I’m being too harsh on John Edwards. At some subconscious level was he just tryinh to replace the chile he last in the car accident. I cant imagine what losing my son would do to me, and perhaps when this happens to someone they feel the need to recreat life.
Ironic i guess for me to feel for John Edwards, someone who suported drive through abortion access. I bet if his wife could go back in time she’d tell his mother, the Mill Morkers wife, to abort John- with a rusty hanger.
JK, I knew you were a complete loser but you’ve outdone yourself tonight. May the Swiftboat be with you.
YFAP I fear picking the McCain-Romney cabinet maybe an exercise in futility.
State: Paris Hilton
Health and Human Services: Britney Spears
Defense: Tom “Maverick” Cruise
Commerce: Ron Popeil
Agriculture: Nicole Ritchie
Education: Jack Black
Homeland Security: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Labor: Scott Boras
Interior: Jenna Jameson
Housing and UD: 50 Cent
Treasury: P Diddy
Transportation: Jerome Bettus
Energy: Jeffrey Skilling (Enron)
Man George, why not let us know how you REALLY feel about Edwards, jeez!
As for Mr. Edwards, my wife explained it best: “Why would a woman bring her child along when she is trying to make a booty-call?” Meaning she wasn’t there for the liason…but for John to visit his kid.
Larry’s VP picks are, I’d say, partially correct. The Repubs will not pick Lieberman, I just don’t see it. Crist or Ridge seems more likely, with the edge to Crist…more electorial votes in Florida.
Obama’s pick will not be Nunn, he’s been out of the game too long. While I like Biden, he won’t be picked either. I think his plagiaristic past will make him too much of a target for the swift-boaters in the frantic last couple weeks before election day. Frankly, I don’t believe he really is on the short list.
Bayh is interesting, being an ex-Hillary supporter and all; but why pick a ‘supporter’ when you can pick the ‘supported’…Her Majesty herself!
Some Progressives have vomited pea soup and spinned their heads at the mere thought of a Obama/Clinton ticket. But while admittedly, I was in her camp previously and thought that she would be Obama’s best choice soon after the primaries wrapped up; I have been somewhat less ethusiastic about her being picked lately. Her and Bill’s behavior has been a turn off to put it lightly. So no, I’m no PUMA.
The latest news on their participation in the convention is a great example. However, Obama I believe, will pick her…she can bring along the 18 million votes she earned. Obama has made pragmatic choices before, picking Clinton will be a continuation of such behavior.
MarcAthony, your wife has it right, we came to the same conclusion from different perspectives. I like your thoughtful analysis, you should post more to raise the bar of discussion, and it would keep me more on point. Also`if I recall correctly you would add diversity. Larry would like that and its a nice counter all the white guy opinions, which is probably 98% of the posters. I doubt we have any Jews, as they are too smart and too busy to waste their time here. Now is that a compliment to them, or a back handed slap that Larry can’t attract his own tribe to his site?
Well George, I appreciate the compliment. As for your question about Larry ‘attracting his own tribe’, well I’m going to try to ‘raise the bar’ once again: I think you are an intelligent and thoughtful individual who does not have to resort to obviously outrageous or needlessly provocative statements and observations.
But before you think I want you to go ‘PC’, I also would like to state that in this world, we ALL have said things, that upon honest self-reflection, have wished that we could take it back.
When I attended middle-school in Kensington back in the late seventies and early eighties, that area of the city was well into it’s post ‘well-paying’ job downturn and I suspect was in that state for at least a couple of decades prior to that.
There were alot of unemployed, young white men that were very angry about their situation and at times took it out on some of us kids going home to our respective neighborhoods. I lived in West Oak Lane at the time. I’ve been chased, had food thrown at me and of course been called nigger by these grown men. Of course I was at first scared, then angry…what the hell was wrong with those guys!?!?
I, along with my friends called them Honkeys, Crackers, etc., basically trying to reclaim our (or so I thought) dignity and ‘manhood’.
Then I remembered, my good friend, I’ll call him ‘Bill’, was white. This school I attended, was the first that I attended that had a large or majority white student body. Yes some were indeed racist, most I am happy to say were not.
You see, it took me experiencing that to realize that not all whites were racists …not even close to being so.
Do I still have my fleeting moments of predjudice?
To be honest…yes.
My own political leanings while being a left-leaning moderate do not insulate me from that most base of human failings I am ashamed to say. I will say this: I am never going to stop trying to see the basic good in ALL people.
Even you George.
I vehemently disagree with most right-wing political points of view, but have worn two uniforms of this country (Marine Corps and Army) in order to defend those on the Right, right to have their point of view. Even though at times I believed some of those that I have defended, thought that I was not worthy to do so because of my complexion.
It’s OK to have a controversial opinion,
but I would say let that opinion ADD to the discourse not detract. I believe George, you have had some bad experiences with people who are not like you racially or of the same religion. If that is true, than I am sorry.
I do know however, that you know decent people who are different from you, you met them in school and on the job…get to know ‘em better! It’ll enrich you.
YFAP, here are my serious picks for an imaginary McCain Cabinet:
State: Joe Lieberman
Health and Human Services: Mike Huckabee
Defense: Gates
Commerce: Carly Fiorina
Agriculture: Chuck Hagel
Education:
Homeland Security: Rudy Guiliani
Labor:
Interior: Mark Sanford
Housing and UD:
Treasury: Phil Gramm
Transportation:
Energy: Bobby Jindal
Attorney General: Fred Thompson
Chief of Staff: Randy Scheunemann
Larry, why do you find it necessary to pay hommage to Joe Biden, Ed Rendell and Tom Ridge? Certainly they are national figures with stature but none represents any kind of answer for America. Biden has been in Congress for 24 years and what has he accomplished? You make like them. They may be good guys. But they are figuring into the national landscape.
MarcAnthony, looks like I am right about one thing, based on your last post you do have the ability to raise the bar here!
With regard to me, I’ve had some bad experinces with people that are differnent, but mostly good experieces and beleive diversity adds to the discussion and quality of work and life, as evidenced by my wanting you to post more. This site is mostly inane talk, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but sometimes a little substance is enjoyable. I resort to the outrageous comments sometimes to make a legitamate point, but often to goad a response or for my own amusement.
I’m coming at these discusions from the right, but truely beleive racial progress is best achieved by conservative policies rather than liberal gravy train policies that created the learned helplessness of welfare and housing policies that rewarded young black men for not taking responsibilty. Affirmative action, I beleive actually cheapens the accomplishments of blacks, because as you know, whites ususally try to marginalize accomplishments of blacks if they miss an opportunity by saying affirmative action is why he/she got the job or seat at a certain selective college. It may have been necessary many years ago, but in the 21st century I think blacks are better off without it. Also, white woman were huge beneficiaries of affirmative action, and thats something whites rarely admit. Carley Fioriena for example may never have had such opportunities, but if she were the same black woman, man we’d be hearing how she’d be no where without it. Anyway Mark, I think you get me, and thanks again for your thoughtful response.
Also, if there are other diverse opinions out there, Asian, Arab, Jewish, Native American, please chime in, you will be respected here if you have something to say.
Said the scorpion to the frog……..
Larry, if you spent less time figuring out who is going to be the next Veep and
less time preaching about Jimmy Rollins, your new book might already be on the discount shelf.
BTW, where were you this morning? I saw Mark Spitz being interviewed today and without his mustache the resemblance was uncanny. I thought it was you being interviewed until Mark opened his mouth.
You could tell he prepared long and hard for that moment. He was praising Phelps
beyond….not belief but beyond what he truly felt. His greatest ex post facto moment was when the interviewer asked him who would win if they both went up against each other in their prime. I bet you can’t guess what he said…….
OOOJ-Some good picks in there.In particular,I like Bettis & Scott Boras.I guess there are some predictable picks,well known people & then there are the ones that come from a shadow gov’t.type orginazation,like,say,the Rand Corp.Anyway,thanks for playing.
YFAP, my particular favorite was Jenna Jameson
George: Do you want to convert? You seem to have a fascination with Judaism. You also seem like you’re on the cusp or going over the line which you know I wlll not tolerate. But I do enjoy your entries, even if you think I’m a wimp.
The man or woman posing as John Kerry — another entry like that and you will be kicked off the island, and exiled to a camp for would be pornographers!
Leo — always great stuff. You are a great writer but sometimes you … well.. I’ll save that..
As far as more traffic -That would be easy. I could just lower myself to the level of the trash hogs on the net. But,. it is just not my style.
Ed– the discount shelf is a great place to be, but this one is so hot that it will sizzle. In fact, I might send an advance copy to some of you once I finish with the expose’ on Yankee Air Pirate.
hmm…
Marc Anthony… you are a wise man. And I used to love your music until Coldplay hit it big.
Other, other, other Jim — good stuff.
As far as Veep predictions… I will continue till the Veeps are picked
As far as Rollins. He’s good copy and I was just giving out advice..
Now.. George. Go read Exodus. Yankee Pirate.. sign up with Barack to get the choice first.. Marc Anthony : Don’t let George bother you. George: Hebrew is a great second language.
And to everyone.. thanks for making the comments more interesting than my blog…
That’s a fact
Larry
Why do we see more videotapes of Osama Bin Laden under deep cover than blog enteries from Larry?
Thank’s Larry for your kind words,(OK, I get the performer’s reference, but I had the name first! That young whippersnapper!):) I find this blog a valuable resource with it’s unique perspective. Being an ex-Philly native, with the exception of my family, this blog helps keep me abreast about what’s goin’ on back home.
I completely understand George, thanks for the explanation. I will try to remember your last post the next time you go a-lookin’ for responses!:)
By the way folks, within a couple of weeks, I will no longer refer to myself as an ‘ex-Philly native’…I AM COMING HOME FOR GOOD. I got a very good job prospect lined up and am just waiting for the gears and cogs to mesh…but it’s looking good!
So everyone, save a cheesesteak for me!
Michael Phelps is amazing!
MA, please tell me you don’t want CheezWiz on your cheesesteak. What is that old expression, “you can never go home again”? I hope it works out the way you hope it will.
Expose’on Yankee Air Pirate ? Bring it on big guy,I’ve got nothing to hide.Though I am afraid of being “reset”.
Thanks Larry!
I’m not ready to convert, but I do know, love, and respect a large number of Jewish people, I’m thinking about adding you to the list. I don’t think you are a wimp , you just need to add hutspa to some of your positions.
You had a record number of posts yesterday, check the last one for a good idea.
George, I love your passion and most of your takes but do you read your own posts? Dude, you go beyond “not being PC” with your straight from the heart, Archie Bunker style. I think Larry is beginning to feel like he’s Edith. What do I do with this guy? When is he going to stiffle it? Don’t be a meathead.
You were beginning to sound like Emeril in your last “marketing” blog to Larry. Kicking it up a notch is not Larry’s style. He probably got talked into this blog thing by one of his smart friend and loses sleep every night worrying about his reputation being permanently ruined by some meathead blogger.
Larry does need to spend a few more minutes and develop a topic with that is more debatable and controversial than free air, VEEPs, Jimmy Rollins, banana peels on SEPTA and lovefests for Ed Rendell, Tom Ridge and Joe Biden. We debate for 2 hours and than the blog turns to cleverness, pirates or Hillary-JR-Obama bashing.
YFAP, I don’t think Larry fired a SAM over you wing. I think he was actually talking about an expose on the real YAPs. Just in case I’m wrong, make sure you have your countermeasures ready and fire the flares.
ECM is on,I’ll hold the flares in reserve.
George, I echo OOOJ. Some of your posts are just offensive. Refs to ‘Jewish’ come out of nowhere and have nothing to do with the subject. I moved from Philly years ago to get away from the religious and race baiting that went on (and I lived in a fairly liberal and diversified area). It just gets oppressive. The political arena should be a little higher on the mental food chain than re-hashing meaningless stereotypes that have no relevance. I grant that this blog wanders quickly and often from politics but that’s as much a function of the regulars as the shallow subjects. We all need a little chill.
Jimmy Rollins schleps himself to Shea Stadium ,arrives late then kvetches about the traffic. The man is meshugeh. He has the chutzpah to say the Philly fans are front runners. That is complete drek. Ech…..such a schmuck…… Jimmy must think we are all schlemiels here in Philly. Instead of trying to schmooze the fans with schmaltz, he ends up looking like a babka noshing yenta delivering bupkis. I feel like sending over a moyel to that putz’s home and cut off his petseleh…..
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Big Red Ed, not sure how to respond to your last blog. I suspect you are taking a shot at George’s misguided Archie Bunker talk. LB, what’s your take on BRE? I thought I was about to see Laverne and Shirley intro.
OOOJ-You misread Larry’s threatening post.It’s YAP singular,not plural.He’s coming after me.Hence I will no longer lend my name to the FREE AIR movement.I’m done.
I don’t see how Ed’s pseudo-Yiddish is going to fill up my tires or make all gas stations in the neighborhood charge the exact same amount for gas. Therefore, I have no use for it.
YFAP, why in the world would Larry single you out of this crowd of pirates, gypsies, tramps and thieves?
Is that the real Larry Kane commenting on the blog comments, or is it the one that was sock puppeted recently into saying his wife was leaving him. I think someone’s having some fun, and it isn’t the real Mr. Kane.
OOOJ did you know that OJ changed his name to OOOJ, yeah it’s short for Oh No! Oh my God! OJ. His former wife gave him the idea, I think.
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Yeah, my previous post was my way of poking fun at George, with all of his Jewish friends he knows and loves. BTW this Yiddish thing might be the answer to Obama’s call for us to speak a second language. I went to my local deli this morning and started to kibbitz with the schmo behind the counter. I said to him bubeleh give me a pound of kosher bacon….
Oh no,we’ve sunk to a new low. Sonny & Cher lyrics.
YAP, I thought that line sounded familiar. So we have a plagiarist among us. Does that mean he can be considered as a Veep candidate for Obama?
BRE, I will not run. I will not accept position if elected.
LB, you may be on to something. It did appear to be the Larry “Darth Vader” dark blog background and sounded very much like our “hero” but Larry has become a Howard Hughes-like, world class recluse. Perhaps he’s actually in a Mossad Sleeper Cell and not writing a book afterall.
YFAP, perhaps if Leo is right, the Larry impersonator is actually one of the Democratic bloggers treatening you for your Conservative leanings. They can’t stand that McCain has pulled even with Obama in the polls.
Do you think it is possible that someone has hacked into Larry’s blog account?
Perhaps he is planning to do an expose on Mrs YFAP and her reluctance to use dryers.
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OOOJ, is this some out of control Feist song you’re working on?
LB, just trying to artificially bump number up so Lord Larry changes the topic
YFAP, are you flying in stealthmode today?
OOOJ-Is that a trick question ?
So McSame has announced he’ll announce his VP on his 72nd birthday. Ridge and Lieberman seem to be out in light of the reaction he got from the base when he drifted the possibility of a pro-choice running mate and his pandering black-and-white answers at the faith forum. Will the hardcore religious right be more accepting of magic underpants?
Black & white direct answers are now regarded as “pandering”.Nuanced answers are all the rage these days.It doesn’t always come down to the “hardcore religious right” either.
YBP, right. Because black-and-white thinking has worked so well for the current administration. Huurrrrrr.
And you bet it comes down to the hardcore religious right. They’d bolt for a third party (Natural Law) if McSame “insults” them with a pro-choice running mate. Tolerance and nuanced thinking isn’t a strong suit of the jingoistic.
In my view it will come down to this.
#1 Who stands out as having a plan to “fix” the current national economic slump.
If neither differentiates themselves on an economic plan, then it comes down to who do you trust with the keys to the USA?
A 72 year old guy living off his past and part of the problem in Congress for the last 24 years.
An unknown, inexperienced Black man with lots of education but very little practical experience.
LB, again with the magical underpants. Do you have firsthand experience with them? I believe that Romney would be a far better candidate than either of these guys religion and flip-flopping aside. He started to fix Taxachusetts’ fiscal responsibility after years of bad management. Now Duval Patrick is returning it to the Communist State of Massachusetts. What can you expect from a state that keeps sending Ted Kennedy to Washington?
YFAP, why would Larry single you out? Unless you stealthfully snuck into his site under his name and made imposter posts, he has no reason to single you out despite being a Republican, supporting McCain, bashing Obama and self-proclaimed pirate.
Ewwwww, Leo said jingoistic! He should just get it out of the way and post his verbal SAT score righ here on this blog, you gotta wonder why a guy like him spends so muich time posting here? I guess we all have big fish in small pond complexes, there’ really no other explaination for all of this.
Looks like Larry might have gotten one right on the VP front. The Biden thing is all over the news and seems quite real. I will first be shocked and second owe Larry some propers (which is tantamount to an apology) I just dont know what Obama is thinking with Biden.
I do think Ridge is definately not a contender after McCain’s strong performance over the weekend with his life begins at conception momnet and keep the Fetus jars off your desk admonishments. No way for Ridge!
Obama had a tough time with the “when life begins” question, the Harvard Lawyer and Review editor had trouble answering questions he deemed “above his pay grade”. That comment and his performance at that forum will haunt him this fall. Too much nuance Leo, not enough gingo for obamo!
Jingoistic + Magical Pants = Win in November?
Empty Suit + Angry Man = Loss in November?
I don’t recall the current administration ever being accused of black & white thinking,so lets not draw that comparison.And c’mon,its been Romney all along.He’ll get out in front of the economic issues & its lights out for Backtrack Obama.Which of course means four more years of JR shilling for Hillary,and that’s a good thing ,as I’ve heard said recently.
I don’t know why Larry,or his sock puppet with the Darth Vader trick,singles me out.I just don’t want to be “reset”>
YBP, you’re either with us or against us. Ring any bells? You’re on the side of freedom, or you’re an “evildoer.” Mission Accomplished. Contractors in Iraq = private enterprise = good. Iraqis will welcome freedom with open arms and democracy will spread across the Middle East. It’s all black-and-white thinking. The whole Bush administration is predicated on binary thought patterns. McSame wants more of the same.
Biden is the obvious choice because he knows how clean and articulate Obama is. Biden has much better global diplomacy credentials that McSame does, and with an ascendent Russia, China, etc., that seems as if it might just come in handy.
Perhaps I should have said “clear” thinking.Regardless,I don’t put Mr.McCain in the same category.I think there’s a sense of loyalty on McCain’s part that prevents him from trashing the President.I just hope he doesn’t make the same mistake that Humphrey made in ’68.Humphrey waited too long ( October 12th to be specific )to distance himself from LBJ’s policies & lost a very winnable election.We can only hope that McCain is aware of this footnote to history.Of course he was a guest of the Vietnamese at the time & undergoing torture.Or mai-tais & hookers according to some.
Biden’s clean and articulate views of people like Obama are perhaps a clue as to why Obama might want him. Joe Biden has a little red neck underneath that white shirt collar, and its not from sunning himself at Dewey Beach. No, I think its from the small world that is metro Wilmington DE. Biden will do the virle white Christian heavy lifting that Obama will so desperately need to connect to certain West Va, Ohio, PA voters who went for Hillary. Biden will be the pit bull, that knows who to bark at and who to bite, and Michelle has decided this is the solution. They will wisely not owe the Clinton anything if they win. Gosh darn it, Larry I think you got this right!
Binden’s bit bull persona nick name will be Gingo, and supporters will sing; G-i-n-g-o and Gingo was his name-o! This will be in keeping with the “O” themes of Obama and Ophrah.
Joe Biden can not be the choice. They are floating him out there to see the reaction.
If the Democrat Party somehow convinces Obama to take Biden, he’ll be an albatross around his neck. Old, cranky, and unlikeable are not going to help Obama win.
YFAP, first notice Leo is back to YBP. First magical underwear. Now BPs. I’m beginning to think there may be smoke where there is flaming.
YFAP, why are you so paranoid about being reset? Unless you were reprogrammed by the Commies in Vietnam.
Well,we knew for sure that the Obama’s had no interest in sharing the White House with the Clinton’s,so Hillary never had a chance.Biden is probably a good choice though I was certain it would be Webb.Regardless,they’ll both wind up in the “they also ran ” category.
George-I think you analyzed that nicely,in that inimitable fashion of yours.
OOOJ-And that means exactly what ? BPs has a special meaning to you ? I think it’s just Leo being “clever”.Also,it’s easy to comment on my paranoia when you’re not the one being threatened.
butt pirate
I laughed because you just described McSame.
Butt pirate isn’t part of my normal lexicon but it’s good to know what’s on Leo’s mind.
Leo,no arguement from me on that. Biden is like a McCain clone minus military service and trophy wife.
Does Biden draw the Dunkin’ Donuts vote ?
If Obama doesn’t stay the “CHANGE” course he will soon become a victim of the god awful blog pirates that roam the Internet. Some old senator from Delaware is not the ticket to coin a phrase. If Obama doesn’t want to walk that plank into oblivion he should pick a fresh face with no baggage and an optimistic outlook for the future. Does there even exist such a Democrat? What would really set the cannons ablaze is if he selected a Republican running mate. Say a George Allen or a Jeb Bush. Now that is what I call “Change.”
Notice that I didn’t suggest Dan Quayle. He was such a potatoe head…….
Biden definately draws the international organization of franchised 7/11 owners.
BRE, you are correct about Biden in your swashbuckling rant gone wrong. Personally, I miss the pirate banter. They were colorful.
Perhaps Obama should pick Jack Sparrow as his running mate. “It’s a fine goal, to be sure. But it seems to me… that a ship like that one, makes this one here seem a bit superfluous, really.” JS
About 20 years ago, a disconsolate Cotton Bowl President upon hearing that the University of Houston would be playing in the Cotton Bowl that year said, “half their fans will be eating at 7/11; the other half will be robbing it.”
Bonus points if you can name the Houston QB.
Big Red Ed-Obama wouldn’t select George Allen,he doesn’t want the macaca vote.
Heisman Trophy Winner and 1st Round Draft Pick Bust – Andre Ware.
First of several UofH QB busts in NFL. Lets hope Kolb is not the next in the string.
That would’ve been my guess too.Wasn’t Klinger from Houston ?
YAP, did you just want to say macaca? Before Allen said it i didnt even know it was a slur. That’s the problem with these label words, once people learn them they take on mythical powers. If only all slur words could be defined down the way queer has been, the world would be a better place.
That poor sprinter named Gay! I mean that’s his real family name, and now young children think its about his sexual orientation, not his family name or a person that just happens to be really happy and gay. No one owns these words! They have differnt connotations, in different settings, to different people, who have different views, who use them with a wide range of affection and vehemance.
Can I have some macaca sauce on my taco!
Actually I forgot it was a slur.I’m sure to be “reset” now.
George Allen Sr – genius
George Allen Jr – bonehead
What a difference a generation makes
YFAP, it’s been great knowing you. :)
After you get reset and sentenced to a life of AOL blogging, please change your email address and comeback as Jack Russel.
Did Houston play Miami in the Cotton Bowl that year? Those guys love robbing 7/11s.
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I thought the slogan “Have a little Maccaca with your Baraka” would be a big hit as a bumper sticker.
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Jack Russell sans the affection for pants suits.We’re pushing one hundred for this topic.
and the Clintons!
Initially I thought Macaca was a shot at that little toad Paul Magala
OOOJ, ditto for the Bush family.
Why’s everyone always pick’in on me?
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please change blog before Jimmy Rollins sits down
Do you still believe Biden will be choice? I really don’t see it, particularly if Michelle Obama was part of decision making.
I think that JRoll is a fantastic short stop, but he’s not particularly fan friendly. I got to meet the Phils with other lucky fans during fan photo night.
Rollins and Wolf were the only two Phils who weren’t shaking hands.
Philly fans are passionate, but some European football fans make us seem laid back.
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