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In reply to the discussion: How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS? - FDL [View all]Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)32. I would say President Beeblebrox, but....
Zaphod Beeblebroxs full title was President of the Imperial Galactic Government. The term Imperial is kept, though it is now an anachronism. The hereditary emperor is now nearly dead - and has been for many centuries. This is because in his last dying moments he was - much to his imperial irritation - locked in a perpetual stasis field. All his heirs are now, of course, long dead and the upshot of all this is that without any drastic upheaval political power has simply and effectively moved a rung or two down the ladder, and is now seemed to be vested in an elected governmental assembly, headed by a president elected by that assembly. In fact, it vests in no such place - that would be too easy. The presidents job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he wont realise this - is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.
http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio9.htm
http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio9.htm
this President doesn't strike me as stupid enough NOT to realize this.
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How Can Obama Deliver This Speech on Racial Profiling While Considering Ray Kelly for DHS? - FDL [View all]
WillyT
Jul 2013
OP
Love the blue link. I was thinking yesterday of doing similar on all my posts.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#30
Please don't do that. Initially, I thought it was someone else's and skipped it the first time.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#39
Another white man chimes in to tell the black President how to handle the race debate.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#8
I'm referring to the pasty white asshole at FDL that saw it fit to criticize Obama's remarks.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#11
Do You Care To Address The Substance Of The Article??? - How Do YOU Feel About...
WillyT
Jul 2013
#15
What's insensitive is people shitting all over what was a heartfelt statement
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#42
Exactly - how can a white person possibly experience what an African American has to experience on
HipChick
Jul 2013
#22
Do you mean, like, someone else makes the decisions, and he's just the "Presenter"? n/t
ReRe
Jul 2013
#43
Yes. The intelligence agencies told him that he has no choice. They set up a super
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#68
Yes it would be worse with a Republican president, but that doesnt mean we should settle.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#98
I agree that Ray Kelly is the King of Profilers and Obama must be pressured not
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#20
Maybe because it refers to the President of the United States as a "a shittalking 1%er" (nt)
Skinner
Jul 2013
#86
Then I obviously misunderstood. Sorry and thanks for straightening that out for me. n/t
Whisp
Jul 2013
#97
Or sending drones to kill kids? An American Teenager Killed, A Grandfather Seeks Accountability
Catherina
Jul 2013
#35
You don't have a problem with him talking about being black in America
East Coast Pirate
Jul 2013
#85
Exactly. When he acts like a Republican I WILL criticize him and nobody is going to
forestpath
Jul 2013
#112
Reductive simplistic thinking there, it is almost like you have ignored the actual
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#95
But (as usual) you have not addressed the inconsistency between his remarks . . .
markpkessinger
Jul 2013
#72
Way too soon. This time, attacking "from the left" couldn't be any more transparent
ecstatic
Jul 2013
#80
Ratfucking doesn't focus on solutions...it creates discontent so voter turnout is lower. nt
msanthrope
Jul 2013
#81
Calling pointing out contradictions "ratfucking" doesn't focus on solutions.
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2013
#114
Is the President just tired of not getting his nominations confirmed in a timely fashion? Would bet
indepat
Jul 2013
#99
Speeches and actions are two different things, ESPECIALLY with this President
BlueStreak
Jul 2013
#102