So this is appropriate… President-elect Obama’s speechwriters can party hard and that’s fine. But please explain to me how someone so inarticulate that they have to grope a cardboard cutout of Senator Clinton instead of scathingly critique her– and so misogynistic that this is how they treat women in politics– is head of speechwriting for the whole freaking White House?
Mr. Obama, give me a break. If you’re going to give this silver-platter job to some twenty-something screwup… I’ve got your screwup right here. See, I thought I wasn’t bestest and brightest enough to make the cut for the Obama dream team… but seeing staffers such as Favreau makes me realize I, too, have a chance! If this kid is qualified, I’ve no doubt that my intellectual prowess and communications skills are up to snuff. I have… what’s that… word… hope!
I’ll tell you this much: Closeted skeletons or past e-mail indiscretions aside, I’d definitely disable my Facebook upon acceptance of the job– and I can promise you I’d find better criticisms of political rivals than pointing out that they have breasts. Oh yes, yes I can.
So give that speechwriting gig to me instead, President-elect Obama. I may not have the Heineken-drinking skills or cardboard-breast-groping talents of Jon Favreau, but I promise you I could do the job at least as well as that guy.
[...] Dear Barack Obama: Where’s my job? So this is appropriate… President-elect Obama’s speechwriters can party hard and that’s fine. But please explain to me how someone so inarticulate that they have to grope a cardboard cutout of Senator Clinton instead of scathingly critique her– and so misogynistic that this is how they treat women in politics– is head of speechwriting for the whole freaking White House? Mr. Obama, give me a break. If you’re going to give this silver-platter job to some twenty-something screwup… I’ve got your screwup right here. See, I thought I wasn’t bestest and brightest enough to make the cut for the Obama dream team… but seeing staffers such as Favreau makes me realize I, too, have a chance. If this kid is qualified, I’ve no doubt that my intellectual prowess and commnications skills are up to snuff. I have… what’s that word… hope! I’ll tell you this much, closeted skeletons or past e-mail indiscretions aside, I’d definitely disable my Facebook upon acceptance of the job– and I can promise you I’d find better criticisms of political rivals than pointing out that they have breasts. Oh yes, yes I can. So give that speechwriting gig to me instead, President-elect Obama. I may not have the Heineken-drinking [...] [...]
ouch…@ See, I thought I wasn’t bestest and brightest enough to make the cut for the Obama dream team…
too early to be making judgements isn’t it? Obviously obama doesn’t spprove of him groping around..he just approves of his speechwriting skills (and seeing obama’s speeches so far..Jon is pretty good at what he does) ..Obama didn’t go and make him his life-skills counsellor or foreign policy advisor or anything..he’s just a speechwriter. But yeah, i wont disagree on the fact that it was incredibly disrespectful ,sexist and well, plain lame :S….peace!
Umm, what makes you think this picture is supposed to be a “scathing criticism” of Hillary Clinton? Pictures are rarely if ever as serious as they’re made out to be later on. He was probably having some beers and thought, “hey let’s take a pic with Hillary, it’ll be fun.” And, as far as his hand being on her chest, I can’t even count how many pictures are out there in which I’m posing with a guy who has his arm around my shoulder, but in the pic it looks like he’s groping me.
It was a dumb move, by whoever put it on facebook, but it’s not that serious.
Wow, More and Again– thank you so much for explaining to me how funny photos in the Internets work! I, on the other hand, was pointing out to my readers how embarrassing pictures work. You see, someone posts a humorous photo that isn’t supposed to be a lightning rod for criticism, and then it catches the attention of a CNN editor and all hell breaks loose.
You’d probably be a terrible speech writer because you seem to lack a sense of humor, and understanding for when things are serious, and when things are not.
One of Obama’s great gifts, and one of the things his speeches highlight, is his ability to address the public smartly, articulately and humanly.
It is certainly not part of Mr. Favreau’s job to drink Heineken or “scathingly critique” Ms. Clinton at a party (wow bore me to death), but I assure you that his ability to have fun with friends speaks to his well roundedness.
Something perhaps you should consider.
On the contrary… the people lacking a sense of humor in this conversation are those who don’t realize I, too, was making a joke– did you miss those more subtle tools of wisecracking, the ’self-deprecating remark’ and the ‘hyperbolic summary’? Thanks for the insight, though, Carl. I never would have figured out why Obama’s speeches go over so well (or that I, in fact, have enjoyed them) without your explanation. Perhaps you and “More and Again” can move in together and have deadpan humorless babies.
By the way, I am Barack Obama’s #1 fan… but if this is what’s going to happen whenever I poke fun at him, we’re in for a long four years….
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