Constant Readers,
Well, the verdict is in on Bobby Jindal's "rebuttal" last night. As one commenter on MSNBC's Hardball put it: "A star was not born."
Even Republicans are bashing him. The only Republican I can think of who isn't disappointed by Jindal is Sarah Palin. I can picture her curled up in her baby wolfhair blanket laughing her ass off as she watched a dude touted as a future leader of the Republican party give a speech that looked like a high school civics project. I'm sure she got up and hummed a happy tune as she dusted the "Palin in 2012" sign that teeters atop the stuffed moosehead in her bathroom.
I mean, the man talked about the (Hello! Republican!) government response to hurricane Katrina several times! That's like Tonya Harding talking about cutting federal spending off at the knees.
Speaking of MSNBC's Hardball...
Gavin Newsom was on the show last night talking about Obama's speech and the stimulus package. And while we don't always see eye-to-eye, I'll admit he did a damn good job. I was reminded that, while he's a moderate in SF, he's a homo-loving Commie in the eyes of the rest of the nation, so it's a good thing he is adept at articulating why what's going on in SF (health care, green stuff - clunky as it all is) makes sense.
And speaking of how others see us...
You may have read about a recent Newsweek article bashing Californians and calling the Bay Area "ground zero for California narcissism and arguably the most attractive
urban expanse on the continent; Neil Morgan in 1960 described San Francisco
as 'the narcissus of the West,' a place whose fundamental asset was
first its own beauty, followed by its own culture of self-regard."
I read it, and I had to laugh. Let's face it: we do believe we're awesome. But it doesn't mean we take ourselves so seriously. I still love the South Park episode the depicts San Franciscans as smug liberals who stand around smelling our own farts. Mostly, though, I wish the writer would get a thesaurus. I counted the words "narcissim" or "narcissistic" 8 times. Frankly, we conceited Californians deserve better. Heheh.
--Melissa
At least Tom Ammiano is getting some good PR for his plan to legalize and tax marijuana, since he's getting NONE of the credit for his health plan that Obama praised...
Posted by: gdewar | February 25, 2009 at 15:53
re: "At least Tom Ammiano is getting some good PR for his plan . . ."
Better change the earlier post to "67 intelligent conversations."
Posted by: kwk | February 26, 2009 at 11:38
San Francisco:
The miners came in '49,
The whores in '51,
And when they got together,
They produced the native son.
Posted by: Dalio | February 27, 2009 at 12:52