Nigel the 27 hour expert
I see where Senator Obama's in Afghanistan...on the ground for a grand total of 27 hours. This, to help him "burnish" his international credibility, according to his own people and media reports.Now, I like Obama. But the idea that you can spend 27 hours somewhere and become some kind of "authority" or "expert" is laughable, particularly when regards something as complicated as whatever the hell is going on over there.
Based on this logic, (spending 27 hours somewhere makes you an expert), then I hereby proclaim myself an expert in the following:
- Criminology. Based on spending 40 hours in a DUI holding cell in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Bathroom design. Based on spending many hours hunched over the throne, singing lunch, round trip meal ticket, talking to the toilet, giving the old technicolor yawn. See "criminology" entry, above.
- Saloon ergonomics. Based on spending day upon day, perched on a bar stool. See "bathroom design" and "criminology" entries, above.
- Human sexuality. Based on spending bloody untold hours, hour after hour, in strip clubs.
posted by Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines @ 11:44 AM
3 Comments:
Well, you clearly are as much of an expert as any politician :)
It is silly indeed. But…
What I find telling (and a bit scary) is that politicians do this kind of shit because there are living, breathing Americans who believe these kinds of stunts qualify the candidates.
Remember the Right’s uproar when that general said McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war didn’t qualify him to be President? The whining and condemnation of the general was stunning. Funny thing is…it really doesn’t qualify him to be President; but apparently there are a lot of Republicans who believe it does.
Guess that means we have a few folks in those Guantanamo prisons who also meet some this qualification. ;-)
This post makes me want to sit in you lap!
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