“Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kindest Lord, for having found
another way of arousing me from my inertia.”
--
St. Gertrude the Great
I’m seeing posts here and there giggling and making fun of this Obama video and his overuse of the word “pie.”
Chris Barrett & Powerhouse Pictures
Can I say, I don’t get it. What’s the big deal? The man likes pie! There’s nothing wrong with that. I got a pie-lovin’ son. When he was 9 years old, he and I spent a few days at Montauk while Elder Son and his father were at Boy Scout Camp together. Buster announced that he was hungry for pie and was going to have pie at every meal.
I told him, “have at it, kid, this is vacation!”
So Buster had pumpkin pie with breakfast and other pie with lunch (or, usually, for lunch) and other pie with supper and the Great Pie Vacation went forward. He ate 9 slices of pie in three days and pronounced all of them “the best pie I’ve ever had!”
You know, sometimes a guy just likes pie.
UPDATE: Emailer Mark S writes, “what people are giggling at is that he sounds like a doofus idiot. But kudos to you, Anchoress, you actually defended Barry. If there was two minutes of video showing McCain sounding that stupid and telling a pointless story, I’m sure no nutroot blogger would be decent enough to defend McCain. They’d just laugh at him and say he was a senile old fool.”
Well, that’s me…all about defending a man and his pie…
First, I think many people were making fun of the fact that he made such a big deal out of the pie story. It was as if he were using it to show off his leadership and judgement.
Second, pie is also a slang term for the female genitalia. That would be the reasons for the giggles.
[Oh. So, more perpetual adolescence? I am AMAZED at how little I know about slang for female genitalia. Someone tried to remonstrate with me for using the term "hoo-hah," and said it was also such slang. Too bad I've lost track of the Jewish neighbors who used "hoo-hah" as an amusing dismissive all those years ago. They'd be horrified to hear it! - admin]
I want to know what the owner of the diner said in response.
Funny how in this story, the staff wants a picture of them with Obama to needle the conservative owner. I can’t help but play the “what if the roles were reversed” game.
But as we are getting into October, it is time to have some of the Anchoress’ “Baked Christmas” oatmeal!
[Oh, man, I am DYING for some baked oatmeal...but I'm fasting from the stuff I love, for the sake of my country. I just hope the election doesn't go into December...-admin]
Miss Elizabeth, I couldn’t watch the video here at work, but I do want to weigh in on a certain concept. Setting aside the alliterative euphony around the phrase “piece of the pie,” the imagery seems to be a stock favorite for Democrats because it encapsulates, in a monosyllabic word, their world view of a zero-sum economy. There is but one pie, we are all hungry, and there is only so much of it to go around.
This isn’t quite the image of American economics that I have learned over the past few years. It’s a powerful image, excellent for manipulating voters, and oh so patently false. At least on my end.
I make the Anchoress’ baked oatmeal probably every other week. I gave it as gifts last year for Christmas (along with my hot chocolate mix that The Anchoress just hates ;~> ) along with gift certificates for another batch of the stuff from me. I get them back on a fairly regular basis, along with requests for more hot chocolate mix!
The hot chocolate mix is filled with milk and that’s good for you. And don’t forget that chocolate comes from beans, and beans are legumes and they are good for you. I don’t quite understand your problem!!! ;~)
Maybe it’s good somebody caught him acting like a doofus. One of the things that has amazed me about your own responses to Obama has been your consistent invocation of a Nazi Nuremburg Rally fantasy about him. I note it among the people you put in linkfests as well. I can’t for the life of me understand this. I have seen nothing in his political rallies that appears to me to be anything but normal American exuberance with a speaker who is a little more rhetorically polished than now common here, and who is perfectly comfortable with his own polish. That’s the Harvard style, and, like Bill Clinton and John Kennedy, Obama is a Harvard Man.
For the past 3 weeks or so on the “vote for” question in the Gallup Daily, Obama has been hovering around 50% and John McCain has declined to about 40%. Amazingly, however, Obama’s personal favorability rating has remained steady at around 60% since June.
It’s really weird. It is as if the only people who dislike him are the core of people who are determined to vote for McCain at all costs. Despite the last round of McCain attack ads, nothing has dented Obama’s favorability numbers in the least, and, at the exact same time, John McCain’s favorability rating has dropped sharply from 60% to 55%.
Now there’s always the convenient explanation of “MSM bias”, and “why don’t they cover the Ayers/ACORN/Wright/Chicago issues more”. But why should that make a difference in McCain’s favorability decline at the same time as his “vote for” decline?
The only reason I can think of is this: Nobody but the core of McCain supporters believes Obama to be a bad person–particularly the 8-10% who are still not willing to say they will vote for him.
Maybe your response to this goofy little video can point to why.
[HOnestly Joseph, if you can't figure it out, I don't think it can be explained to it. But since I was generous to Obama here, I guess I don't get what it "points to." - admin]
Odd, Joseph’s assertion that Bill Clinton is a “Harvard Man,” just like Obama and JFK. Clinton graduated from Georgetown (”a school in the Jesuit tradition”), then attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and finally, graduated from Yale Law School. For a Bulldog to be compared to a Man of the Crimson Hue is a heinous insult, indeed. Then again, facts should never interfere with a typical leftist’s distortion of the facts in order to advance whatever spin du jour is being offered for our consideration. As to Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, and Obama, sir, is no Kennedy. Unless, of course, there’s a Mafia mistress of whom we’re not aware.
I apologize Kevin, I should have checked. I has it stuck in my head that he had gone to Harvard.
But my point is the same. There is difference between having wrong views and being a bad person, and I can’t for the life of me see why the people on the farthest Right see Obama as a bad person. And, apparently, everybody but people on the far Right can’t see it either. I also notice Obama’s “vote for” ratings go up when people actually get to see him in places like the Presidential Debates where you have both men talking to us instead of media pundits talking about them.
“Then again, facts should never interfere with a typical leftist’s distortion of the facts in order to advance whatever spin du jour is being offered for our consideration.”
This is a real sample of the problem. I was sloppy and made a mistake. I do that occasionally. I just admitted it an apologized for it. But Kevin never seems to even consider the possibility that I was simply sloppy and made a mistake. Because I am a “leftist”, everything I say must be a deliberate and willful distortion of facts. In other words, I don’t just hold wrong views, I am a bad person.
I strongly suspect that were I to run for public office, any error I made in my past or present, no matter how small, even when I admitted it and recanted it, would somehow become still further evidence that I am this horrible person.
Now, whatever media bias there may be in the treatment of Obama, there is certainly none in the treatment of me. The media doesn’t refer to me at all. So why is there this presumption that because I disagree with Kevin, and am sometimes prone to laziness in fact checking there is prima facie evidence of moral turpitude on my part?
But when I read most on the Right, I find exactly this same tone, exactly this same presumption, and exactly this same Philistine, high-and-mighty, sanctimonious no matter who the person is with the differing views. People can’t be just wrong, they have to be evil and corrupt in the bargain.
There is much to admire in the people on the Right, but unfortuntely one of these admirable things is not a balanced and healthy capacity for self-criticism.
["But when I read most on the Right, I find exactly this same tone, exactly this same presumption, and exactly this same Philistine, high-and-mighty, sanctimonious no matter who the person is with the differing views. People can't be just wrong, they have to be evil and corrupt in the bargain."
Precisely what we read when we read the left, Joseph. It goes both ways. No matter how much you do not like hearing that. BTW, I tried to respond to your email and kept getting booted back. Wanted to tell you my mother used to smell funeral flowers just before we had news of death. -admin]
[...] things yesterday that brought my mind to pie. First was the BHO video of fifteen mentions of pie, which I first saw on The Anchoress. I was at work, though, and so I couldn’t watch the video at the time, but when I finally saw [...]
October 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
First, I think many people were making fun of the fact that he made such a big deal out of the pie story. It was as if he were using it to show off his leadership and judgement.
Second, pie is also a slang term for the female genitalia. That would be the reasons for the giggles.
[Oh. So, more perpetual adolescence? I am AMAZED at how little I know about slang for female genitalia. Someone tried to remonstrate with me for using the term "hoo-hah," and said it was also such slang. Too bad I've lost track of the Jewish neighbors who used "hoo-hah" as an amusing dismissive all those years ago. They'd be horrified to hear it!
- admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I, too, love Pi, although only an irrational man can love an irrational number.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I want to know what the owner of the diner said in response.
Funny how in this story, the staff wants a picture of them with Obama to needle the conservative owner. I can’t help but play the “what if the roles were reversed” game.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I like pie. It is always time for pie.
But as we are getting into October, it is time to have some of the Anchoress’ “Baked Christmas” oatmeal!
[Oh, man, I am DYING for some baked oatmeal...but I'm fasting from the stuff I love, for the sake of my country. I just hope the election doesn't go into December...-admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Miss Elizabeth, I couldn’t watch the video here at work, but I do want to weigh in on a certain concept. Setting aside the alliterative euphony around the phrase “piece of the pie,” the imagery seems to be a stock favorite for Democrats because it encapsulates, in a monosyllabic word, their world view of a zero-sum economy. There is but one pie, we are all hungry, and there is only so much of it to go around.
This isn’t quite the image of American economics that I have learned over the past few years. It’s a powerful image, excellent for manipulating voters, and oh so patently false. At least on my end.
October 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I make the Anchoress’ baked oatmeal probably every other week. I gave it as gifts last year for Christmas (along with my hot chocolate mix that The Anchoress just hates ;~> ) along with gift certificates for another batch of the stuff from me. I get them back on a fairly regular basis, along with requests for more hot chocolate mix!
[That hot chocolate mix is a sin. -admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
The hot chocolate mix is filled with milk and that’s good for you. And don’t forget that chocolate comes from beans, and beans are legumes and they are good for you. I don’t quite understand your problem!!! ;~)
October 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Howard Stern fines many supporting Obama because is he pro life and has Sarah Palin as his running mate
Amazing!
October 13th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Maybe it’s good somebody caught him acting like a doofus. One of the things that has amazed me about your own responses to Obama has been your consistent invocation of a Nazi Nuremburg Rally fantasy about him. I note it among the people you put in linkfests as well. I can’t for the life of me understand this. I have seen nothing in his political rallies that appears to me to be anything but normal American exuberance with a speaker who is a little more rhetorically polished than now common here, and who is perfectly comfortable with his own polish. That’s the Harvard style, and, like Bill Clinton and John Kennedy, Obama is a Harvard Man.
For the past 3 weeks or so on the “vote for” question in the Gallup Daily, Obama has been hovering around 50% and John McCain has declined to about 40%. Amazingly, however, Obama’s personal favorability rating has remained steady at around 60% since June.
It’s really weird. It is as if the only people who dislike him are the core of people who are determined to vote for McCain at all costs. Despite the last round of McCain attack ads, nothing has dented Obama’s favorability numbers in the least, and, at the exact same time, John McCain’s favorability rating has dropped sharply from 60% to 55%.
Now there’s always the convenient explanation of “MSM bias”, and “why don’t they cover the Ayers/ACORN/Wright/Chicago issues more”. But why should that make a difference in McCain’s favorability decline at the same time as his “vote for” decline?
The only reason I can think of is this: Nobody but the core of McCain supporters believes Obama to be a bad person–particularly the 8-10% who are still not willing to say they will vote for him.
Maybe your response to this goofy little video can point to why.
[HOnestly Joseph, if you can't figure it out, I don't think it can be explained to it. But since I was generous to Obama here, I guess I don't get what it "points to." - admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hmm. I think that Jay C. is on to something. Maybe Barack has Pie on the brain because Michelle wants to steal yours.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Odd, Joseph’s assertion that Bill Clinton is a “Harvard Man,” just like Obama and JFK. Clinton graduated from Georgetown (”a school in the Jesuit tradition”), then attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and finally, graduated from Yale Law School. For a Bulldog to be compared to a Man of the Crimson Hue is a heinous insult, indeed. Then again, facts should never interfere with a typical leftist’s distortion of the facts in order to advance whatever spin du jour is being offered for our consideration. As to Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, and Obama, sir, is no Kennedy. Unless, of course, there’s a Mafia mistress of whom we’re not aware.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:36 am
[...] hear Barack Obama likes pie. Lots of pie. I make good pies but I only share my pie with family and [...]
October 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I apologize Kevin, I should have checked. I has it stuck in my head that he had gone to Harvard.
But my point is the same. There is difference between having wrong views and being a bad person, and I can’t for the life of me see why the people on the farthest Right see Obama as a bad person. And, apparently, everybody but people on the far Right can’t see it either. I also notice Obama’s “vote for” ratings go up when people actually get to see him in places like the Presidential Debates where you have both men talking to us instead of media pundits talking about them.
“Then again, facts should never interfere with a typical leftist’s distortion of the facts in order to advance whatever spin du jour is being offered for our consideration.”
This is a real sample of the problem. I was sloppy and made a mistake. I do that occasionally. I just admitted it an apologized for it. But Kevin never seems to even consider the possibility that I was simply sloppy and made a mistake. Because I am a “leftist”, everything I say must be a deliberate and willful distortion of facts. In other words, I don’t just hold wrong views, I am a bad person.
I strongly suspect that were I to run for public office, any error I made in my past or present, no matter how small, even when I admitted it and recanted it, would somehow become still further evidence that I am this horrible person.
Now, whatever media bias there may be in the treatment of Obama, there is certainly none in the treatment of me. The media doesn’t refer to me at all. So why is there this presumption that because I disagree with Kevin, and am sometimes prone to laziness in fact checking there is prima facie evidence of moral turpitude on my part?
But when I read most on the Right, I find exactly this same tone, exactly this same presumption, and exactly this same Philistine, high-and-mighty, sanctimonious no matter who the person is with the differing views. People can’t be just wrong, they have to be evil and corrupt in the bargain.
There is much to admire in the people on the Right, but unfortuntely one of these admirable things is not a balanced and healthy capacity for self-criticism.
["But when I read most on the Right, I find exactly this same tone, exactly this same presumption, and exactly this same Philistine, high-and-mighty, sanctimonious no matter who the person is with the differing views. People can't be just wrong, they have to be evil and corrupt in the bargain."
Precisely what we read when we read the left, Joseph. It goes both ways. No matter how much you do not like hearing that. BTW, I tried to respond to your email and kept getting booted back. Wanted to tell you my mother used to smell funeral flowers just before we had news of death. -admin]
October 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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