Obama is A hypnotist now?

[DisturbedPervert]

What made it weird originally?

A person telling others to write about what inspires them about himself.

[KRonn]

I actually think a Palin presidency would be the most amusing four years ever. 

[Caliga]

"Education are cool, kiddos, dontcha know?  Youuuuuuuu betcha!  So, so extraordinary, see."

[Ed Anger]

"Education are cool, kiddos, dontcha know?  Youuuuuuuu betcha!  So, so extraordinary, see."

I be too busy imagining fucking Palin to be concentrating on her speech. Then there would be the inevitable boner in class that I'd hope would subside.

[Fate]

"Education are cool, kiddos, dontcha know?  Youuuuuuuu betcha!  So, so extraordinary, see."

Then on one particularly cold Fall day, the President's amatuer porn tape leaks onto youporn and piratebay....

[Malthus]

I'll just say that the furor aroused by this event appears quite bizzare to me and I expect to most non-Americans. 

What seems bizarre to me is the classification as a "furor." 

I feel like Zoupa being told Quebeccers were *outraged* by some Brit article about their health care.

Come come. There is an element of hysteria reported in the media, and that's what I'm commenting on - not the reaction of "Americans" as a whole, whom I assume mostly could not give a shit.

[Eddie Teach]

Come come. There is an element of hysteria reported in the media, and that's what I'm commenting on - not the reaction of "Americans" as a whole, whom I assume mostly could not give a shit.

There's always going to be a few people getting worked up over very little; surely, that's not merely an American phenomenon.

[sbr]

Come come. There is an element of hysteria reported in the media, and that's what I'm commenting on - not the reaction of "Americans" as a whole, whom I assume mostly could not give a shit.

There's always going to be a few people getting worked up over very little; surely, that's not merely an American phenomenon.

The Aussies seem to be getting pretty good at Hysteria and Outrage lately.

[Malthus]

Come come. There is an element of hysteria reported in the media, and that's what I'm commenting on - not the reaction of "Americans" as a whole, whom I assume mostly could not give a shit.

There's always going to be a few people getting worked up over very little; surely, that's not merely an American phenomenon.

I'm not claiming that Americans are solely and uniquely suceptible. 

I'm just pointing out that Obama, for whatever reason, appears to be arousing a degree of worked-upness (if that's a term) that seems unusual.

Certainly non-American figures have done that in the past and will in the future. I wasn't making a commentary on the nature of Americans, insulting Americans, or whatever.

[The Minsky Moment]

Come come. There is an element of hysteria reported in the media, and that's what I'm commenting on - not the reaction of "Americans" as a whole, whom I assume mostly could not give a shit.

There's always going to be a few people getting worked up over very little; surely, that's not merely an American phenomenon.

yes but you can tell something about people from the nature of the little things that get them worked up.

Canadians get worked up about constitutional provisions concerning bilingual education and the application of counterveiling duties under WTO rules.
The French get worked up about the misuse of geographical designations of food and beverage products.
The Brits get worked up about MPs dipping into the petty cash drawer to pay the gardener for the second house.
Scandiweenies get worked up about something the CIA might have done 40 years ago in some country they have never visited or would otherwise care about.

Whereas Americans get worked up about the notion that the President of the United States is really the leader of a vast, sinister conspiracy to install a totalitarian dictatorship, and is willing to murder thousands or even millions of innocents to get get his way.  The only wrinkle being that only half of America believes this at any given time, with the half switching off every change of administration.

[Hansmeister]

I was curious about that Alice Deal school in previous post, so googled on it. Turns out the Dems had investigations on Bush I giving a speech. Sheesh....

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/09/08/democrats-investigated-and-held-hearings-about-ghw-bushs-1991-speech-to-schoolchildren.php

Democrats Investigated and Held Hearings about GHW Bush's 1991 Speech to Schoolchildren

I don't see any problem calling either speech a "staged media event."  That is what it is.  But these hysterical allegations about hypnotism and corrupting children are something else.

Well, luckily there weren't any hysterical allegations.  The most hysterical allegations came from those making hysterical allegations of those who were displeased with the event.

[Faeelin]

By way of comparison, here's Reagan's speech, with questions.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm

[Razgovory]

Well, luckily there weren't any hysterical allegations.  The most hysterical allegations came from those making hysterical allegations of those who were displeased with the event.

Do you want take that back before someone embarrass you?

[Hansmeister]

Personally, I find it good that we spend millions of dollars having schoolkids watch a ra-ra generic speech.  Kids simply don't watch enough TV nowadays with all the internet crap out there.  I wonder how many Sham-Wows the president sold.

[Hansmeister]

Well, luckily there weren't any hysterical allegations.  The most hysterical allegations came from those making hysterical allegations of those who were displeased with the event.

Do you want take that back before someone embarrass you?

Well, I'm not worried about that from you, you're incapable of making an intelligent argument.  it's easy for the MSM to find somebody unhappy about something in a country of 307 million and blow it up, that doesn't really mean anything.

As has already been demonstrated the GOP has been far more restrained and sane than the hysterics that the Democrats in Congress engaged in when GHWB made a similar speech 18 years ago.