Shorter Penn Jillette (very, very profanely), about President Obama’s smirking about his past drug use and current status as the head honcho for the War On Some Drugs: “It’s not a G*d-d*mned joke!”
Oh, it’s a joke, all right. The technical term for it is “Dark Humor,” and I when write that you should take into account that I used to write amateur gaming material for a roleplaying setting that had that concept be a literal evocation of Evil.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I despise the War On Some Drugs, and I am displeased with most of the politicians on both sides who use the issue to burnish their own reputations. But I react largely the way that Penn does to the smirking attitude of President Obama about smoking pot and doing cocaine. Obama got away with it. He knows that he got away with it. And Obama visibly appears smug about the fact that he got away with it, while the rest of the population still has to follow the rules about pot and cocaine. Guess they should have gone to Columbia and Harvard, huh?
Shorter Moe Lane: Barack Obama has no empathy in him oh, the Hell with it: Barack Obama is a jackass.
Moe Lane
Ah…so empathy and Elvis are the same thing and Obama has neither? Or does a void of one lead to a void of the other?
hope that school teacher doesnt hear you insulting Obama that way, she’ll have you arrested
Shorter Penn translation: “I want to get wasted and Obama won’t let me.” Cry me a river.
Gee. Another rube self-identifies.
DavidP: Penn was never on board with Obama. He’s a fairly hardcore libertarian and always has been.
I saw a lot of “libertarians” lining up to vote Democrat in ’08, Wombat. Amazing how all of them have disappeared, ain’t it?
I saw a lot of “libertarians” lining up to vote Democrat in ’08
I did too! Kept wondering if they misunderstood libertarianism or if I did.
DavidP: Just because some of the anti-war/pro-privacy libertarians were dumb enough to believe Obama when he said he’d do something about civil liberties, Gitmo and all those other things that get libertarians hot and bothered, doesn’t mean all of them signed up with Team Blue in ’08. Penn Jillette wasn’t one of the ones that did.
Actually, countrydoc, Penn Jillette doesn’t even drink alcohol. Fail, try again?
I feel ashamed I’d never noticed how relentlessly Kobalian the War on Drugs was.