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Obama, Al Green and the fat man

January 21, 2012 by Dave Knadler

Bring on the Newt.

So we’ve got the president channeling Al Green and Newt Gingrich looking like he can win in South Carolina. Two guys defying my cynical and uninformed expectations. There is a reason I don’t get paid to analyze politics.

How about that Obama? This is going to make the Tea Party types hate him all the more, mostly because he picked an Al Green song instead of one by, say, Hank Williams Jr.

Worse, he sounded pretty good. If there’s one thing uber-conservatives hate, it’s the hint of any sort of affinity for the arts. Or any sort of talent beyond making money. Watch for this snippet to appear in attack ads later this year, casting Barry as an unserious man who’s fiddling singing while Rome burns. Me? I’m always happy when someone demonstrates a sense of humor.

Speaking of unserious men, how in the hell did Newt Gingrich close to within millimeters of knocking Mitt Romney off his horse? Do Republicans really want this guy to be their nominee? I am aghast. His unlikely surge probably has something to do with the $5 million check his casino compadre slipped into his pocket a couple of weeks ago.

This really isn’t about dueling ideologies; it’s about people sitting around watching TV ads. Gingrich used his windfall to buy quite a few of them in South Carolina. If he actually wins the primary there, it’s an astounding victory not for conservatism, but for one Sheldon Adelson — a man who knows better than most how to play suckers. Anyway, it’s good to know money still counts for something in this country.

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About Dave Knadler

Obscure writer. Lazy photographer. Bashful guitarist. Perhaps too fond of wine. Tireless nemesis of New York Times crosswords, Wordle, Semantle and all other puzzles du jour.

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  1. Joan says

    January 21, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    The Republicans are desperate for ideas. Even they can see that “deregulation and low taxes” can only be ridden so far – and they have ridden them very far, indeed. The plastic Mr. Romney (think Ken doll) has disavowed any ideas he ever had. The Newt is full of a lot of things, including ideas – good ones, lousy ones, strange ones – but at least they’re ideas.

  2. John H. says

    January 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    Good point, Joan. That’s what my mom remembers about Gingrich, that he had “great ideas for making government more efficient”. Hard to see how attempting to impeach Clinton for having it off with Monica Lewinsky can be considered “efficient”, but I guess she meant some other ideas.

    • Dave Knadler says

      January 22, 2012 at 2:39 pm

      Someone mentioned that Gingrich has 100 ideas: 97 are good ones, and the other three will blow up the world. The problem with even the good ideas is that it’s easier to think them up than transform them into policy. Gingrich is a bomber, not a builder.

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