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[liptonrm_backup]

As a postscript to last night's post of foodie love, after class I stopped off and got some Chinese take-out and when I got home I proceeded to eat it faster than I've ever eaten anything before. I was just that hungry and it was oh so very yummy. I topped it off with some marzipan ice cream from Ben&Jerry's. It is delicious and I would eat it all the time if I could, that and their cinnamon bun ice cream which is quite possibly perfection in icey creamy form.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for non-fat tofutti dreamsicle. nom nom nom nom

However, the point of this post is not food. Sad, I know. However, nearly as great as tasty food is former presidents being awesome. First off, Jimmy Carter wrote a fantastic op-ed piece that, amazingly, makes me love him even more. It is entitled The words of God do not justify cruelty to women and I kind of want to print it out and nail it to a number of eclesiastical edifices, Luthor-style. Jimmy Carter, you're my hero (which sounds facetious but is still true).

Also, Bill Clinton is a P-I-M-P PIMP. Bill Clinton has his problems but, man, you can't help but love him. This image pretty much says it all:


Last but definitely not least, yesterday was President Obama's birthday. Happy belated Mr. President! He brought Helen Thomas cupcakes because it was her birthday too. Aawwwwww


Some days it's good to be a political fangirl. =D

Comments

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Amen to that article! I'm right there with you about nailing it to edifices.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Preach it, sister!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

LOL, all I can think is that if you'd read American newspapers over the years, you would think that both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were our worst presidents evah. LOLOLOLOL! Meanwhile we're naming airports after Ronald Reagan! LOL! An airport named after the guy who fired all the air traffic controllers in the name of corporate whore union busting. LOL!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, there's a reason why the American newspaper is going the way of the dinosaur, and it's not entirely because they've been giving it away for free online. Plus, you know, Rupert Murdoch.

Because we all know how well Reaganomics worked in the long run. *rolls eyes* The end of the continuous Reagan hagiography has to be coming one of these days. Yeah, it sucks that the man had Alzheimer's but death by a serious medical condition does not a great president make.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

The end of the continuous Reagan hagiography has to be coming one of these days.

On the contrary, it's getting more and more entrenched. After the past eight years of Republican disaster, no one wants to talk about Bush so they have to keep on lionizing that "real" conservative, Ronnie. And America's notoriously poor memory skills have long since wiped out what the Reagan administration and the 1980s were really like in favor of some golden-hued "morning in America" fantasy. The truth is that this whole goddamn Bush disaster and everything that's follwed would have been impossible if Ronald Reagan hadn't paved the way. The only thing they should be naming after that guy is garbage dumps and graveyards.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

It is true, America's attention span, let alone memory, is obnoxiously short. But I also think there's a disconnect between how the political commentators remember the 80's and how the younger generations either remember or perceive the 80's. It's kind of like how my mom wishes that it were the 50's of her childhood again and I'm appalled by that nostalgia because the 50's weren't as great as she remembers.

Plus, when you hear about army officers about to be deployed to Afghanistan who are bitching about how Reagan screwed the pooch 20 years ago you know that the bloom is going off the rose.

In my opinion, a lot of the noise that the blowhards are making is the last great gasp of the current incarnation of the conservative movement. Somehow the country changed when they weren't paying attention and now all they can do is go to town hall meetings and scream at 80 year-old congresspeople.

Either the crazy conservatives will die out (after having to face a private insurance company's death panel) or the zombie/plague/nuclear/robot apocalypse will occur and the entire discussion will be moot. Seriously, though, history rarely allows heroes to remain untarnished, whether they were actual heroes or not.

Which doesn't make things any easier right at this very moment. But at least it's something? *sighs* There's a reason I like to think about zombies ...