I think he will Incertus. This election is fast becoming pretty funny.

I’m not sure this issue is a) Hopeful; b) Changey; or that it c) meets the Michelle Obama standard for political issues in that it does not put Arugula into the mouths of the Obama children, and does not retroactively pay the Obama’s collective student loans.

Also, McCain has seven houses, and Obama only has one.  Sister James taught me in kindergarden that seven is more than one, and if something is good, it is better to have more of it than less.  Therefore, seven houses are better than one, making McCain’s housing situation at least seven times better than Obama’s.  I’m not sure why Obama would go around advertizing his paucity of houses.  It is quite a bit like Obama criticizing McCain for having two balls, when he only has one.  Best to keep that to oneself and talk about Hope, maybe Hope for more houses, I don’t know for sure what he goes on about.

ister James taught me in kindergarden that seven is more than one, and if something is good, it is better to have more of it than less.

Your school was run by the the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?

I’m not sure why Obama would go around advertizing his paucity of houses.

See, this here is a perfect illustration of the difference between liberals and conservatives.

Liberals: think one should only take up as much space and resources as one can reasonably use, and that frugality and sustainability are positive traits worth sharing with others.

Conservatives: think more is better, period, and anyone who openly admits to not having <strike>a lot</strike> more than they could ever imagine using in their own lifetime or those of several generations of family must obviously be a pleb. 

It’s actually kind of ironic, isn’t it, when you recall what the dictionary definitions of those terms are.

Opadabbadooo -

Are you alleging that if McCain and other wealthy people didn’t buy those houses, that they would a) exist and b) be inhabited by the proliteriat all Dr. Zhivago like?  At least the act of building the house that you hate McCain for owning, you know, employed tradesmen.

Also, I know the Obamas are tall people, but do you think that the $1.6 Million Obama manse “takes up [just] as much space and resources as one [two adults and two children] can reasonably use?”  Or the Kennedy Compound, the Kerry collection of residences, the sprawling Edwards Estate and/or the Streisand Estate are sufficiently Spartan to meet your “Libruls are better people test?”  Plank. Eye. Remove.

I’m rapidly losing the ability to tell whether this Pink Dinkins character is a joke or a troll or what. 

OK, your first paragraph?  Makes no sense.  Reads like the side of a Dr. Bronner’s bottle, as composed by Senator McCarthy.  Not responding to it, because I don’t understand.

Also, I know the Obamas are tall people, but do you think that the $1.6 Million Obama manse “takes up [just] as much space and resources as one [two adults and two children] can reasonably use?”

$1.6 mil would probably buy a small 3 bedroom apartment in my neighborhood. It’s a niceish part of Brooklyn, but it’s no Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights, let alone Park Avenue.  You can’t even buy a house in a middle class part of NYC for that.  So yeah, doing the mental math of Chicago vs. New York, I’d imagine that’s probably far more reasonable, space and resources wise, than owning 10 different homes, in different cities, all across the country, including one property that is actually a compound with several homes on it. 

Or the Kennedy Compound, the Kerry collection of residences, the sprawling Edwards Estate and/or the Streisand Estate are sufficiently Spartan to meet your “Libruls are better people test?” Plank. Eye. Remove.

I didn’t realize Obama held the deed to any of those homes? 

And, hey, you’re the one who was all incredulous that someone who owned only one home would have the gall to admit it publicly.  You should also have your reading comprehension checked.  I in no way said that ‘libruls’ are better people, or even that ‘libruls’ only ever use exactly what they need.  I said that values like frugality and sustainability are, well, valued, among liberals, whereas conservatives call people who proudly have “just enough” a bunch of snot-nosed plebs.

“OK, your first paragraph?  Makes no sense.  Reads like the side of a Dr. Bronner’s bottle, as composed by Senator McCarthy.  Not responding to it, because I don’t understand.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket!  You convinced, exactly, um, yourself.

“I said that values like frugality and sustainability are, well, valued, among liberals, whereas conservatives call people who proudly have “just enough” a bunch of snot-nosed plebs.”

Valued by theoretical liberals who never seem to be the ones telling everyone else to feel guilt for what they have.  Because all of the real liberals that hold office seem to have a whole lot of shit.  Because the thrust of the Obama commercial is “McCain is rich” and a dogwhistle about his age, don’t you think that Obama could have spread that 1.6 Million over seven houses, thus making him a “sevenhouse-ionairre?”

Also, I am the son of a shop steward.  I grew up in a rowhouse in a part of Philadelphia that you wouldn’t visit in an armored Hummvee on Easter Sunday morning.  Don’t bitch at me about your hipster true grit and the working man and whatnot.

I grew up in a rowhouse in a part of Philadelphia that you wouldn’t visit in an armored Hummvee on Easter Sunday morning.

Big fucking deal.

Oh, and don’t be hatin’ on Feist, Amanda. She’s cute.

“I’m guessing Pink is a real troll, because he’s got the whole thing of “use big words and hope that convinces people that you’re smart”.”

Big words like Philadelphia. 

It is my diction that gets you all hot and bothered and calling me dumb.

Are you flirting with me, Amanda?  Wanna help me straighten out my diction?

Do Insufferable Music Snobs hate *everything* the general public likes? Is that there raison d’ whatever? If that was an obscure song no one knew about, I bet the IMS’s would love it.

I’m a music snob and I love this song and everything else Feist has done.

Just FYI.

And here I was hoping for you to disemvowel Pink.  Ah well.

Wait, I’m still back there trying to figure out what my pointing out that the Democratic candidate for president owns less house than your average NYC art curator or pediatrician has to do with being a hipster or true grit or whatever. 

Is it because I didn’t rush to Feist’s defense?

Opop:

Is it because I didn’t rush to Feist’s defense?

No, I think it’s because you unnerved him with the scariness of your valid comparison and placement of the numbers into a real-world context. They don’t like that. They react to that like my cats do when I run the vacuum.

And I wouldn’t call myself an IMS, but I like Feist, too. “1234” does get a little old, though.

1234 was originally written by Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo. It keeps its musical credibility as long as New Buffalo remains an obscure Australian indy band.

If that was an obscure song no one knew about, I bet the IMS’s would love it.

That is my suspicion as well.

Of course, no discussion of the Feist song would be complete without this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-723071763289150254&ei=IrCuSNWvC47I-gGk4onRAw&q=feist+muppets&vt=lf&hl=en

Feist and [whoever] have very a fundamentally similar musical orientation.

This is why I’m not feeling the Feist, in a nutshell.  She sounds just like every vaguely jazz-influenced female solo artist of the last decade, all shoved into a blender and pureed for 30 seconds.  She’s Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Norah Jones, Sarah MacLachlan, and Natalie Merchant (with a little Carole King and/or Carly Simon and/or Joni Mitchell thrown in, and some Janis extract to spice it up a little), except somehow also new and exciting and fresh.  It just feels like I’m being sold a bill of goods.  If I like those artists, I’d rather just continue listening to them, rather than blowing my music budget on a clone.

That Beethovan! he sounds just like every vaguely romantic-influenced classical composer of the last decade of the 18th Century, all shoved into a blender and pureed for 30 seconds.  He’s Hayden and Mozart and Weber and Schubert (with a little bit of Byron thrown in for added spice), except somehow also new and exciting and fresh.  It just feels like I’m being sold a bill of goods.  If I like those artists, I’d rather just continue listening to them, rather than blowing my music budget on a clone. 

rea, that would only work if you were willing to consider Feist on a par with Beethoven. Now,  I’m kind of fond of Feist, but…really. She’s no fucking Beethoven.  If she WERE, she could mishmash all she wanted and it’d be worthwhile.

don’t you think that Obama could have spread that 1.6 Million over seven houses, thus making him a “sevenhouse-ionairre?”

Someone’s been in a coma for the entire housing bubble. 1.6 Mil is the cost of the **3 bedroom condo** across the street from my Chicago apartment.

I feel I should qualify that…$1.6M is what the stubborn bastards are charging for the 3 bedroom condo across the street. But it’s been on the market for six months now and ain’t moving. LOL greedenfreude.

Also, McCain has seven houses, and Obama only has one.

Surely Obama must have some kind of residence in DC, no?

John - since the focuses are homes an individual owns, I would guess that the Obamas rent a place in DC.  And considering he’s been on the campaign trail for over a year now and thus only sporadically in DC, I would also guess that they may have let the lease expire.

The posts about INS’s makes me glad I’m mostly into classical.

Although there are plenty of INS’s within classical, too. (“You mean the Pulcinella Suite is the only Stravinsky you listen to?”)

Um, that was IMS’s, of course.