Yeah, I would imagine there are many days when stopping work for a half hour in the evening is just fine, even for the President. Especially when you work from home!
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 06, 2008 8:27:31 am PST #9746 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
billytea - Nov 06, 2008 8:27:44 am PST #9747 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I don't know much about Rahm is this a yay?
He knows Washington, he's a talented Congress-wrangler, he's also a partisan pick. I just read an article over at cqpolitics arguing he isn't Change-y enough. I tend to disagree. I think there are gains to be made in looking like a magnanimous winner, but this is after all a Democratic administration, and most importantly, Obama will be working with a Democratic Congress. You want someone in the CoS role, I would think, who has a proven track record with said Congress.
Jesse - Nov 06, 2008 8:29:34 am PST #9748 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He came out of the Clinton administration, too, so it's kind of interesting in terms of those politics, too. AND a Chicago guy, AND a congressman, as well as being the enforcer. Seems like a good plan to me.
Tom Scola - Nov 06, 2008 8:30:58 am PST #9749 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Oh, and by the way,
YAY, NORTH CAROLINA!!!
Jessica - Nov 06, 2008 8:31:07 am PST #9750 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Especially when you work from home!
Hee - good point.
lisah - Nov 06, 2008 8:34:14 am PST #9751 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
So, my the Sun just responded to my complaint about them running old Doonesbury strips with this:
Sorry for the inconvenience. Doonesbury will be back tomorrow. We chose not to run the strip earlier this week to be fair in the days preceding Election Day. It should have returned Wednesday... My apologies.
What does that mean "to be fair in the days preceding Election Day" ??? They already run it on the Editorial page.
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 8:35:12 am PST #9752 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
Kathy A - Nov 06, 2008 8:35:21 am PST #9753 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of Obama, my manager at B&N (the one whose BIL is a Secret Service agent on Michelle's detail) said that his BIL was going to try and get him and his family a photo-shoot meet-n-greet with Obama! Nothing definite yet, but he's keeping his fingers crossed.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 8:39:35 am PST #9754 of 10001
brillig
Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency
I saw his strip yesterday announcing Obama and thought he'd submitted two different ones, just in case. I didn't knew he'd decided to roll the dice.
lisah - Nov 06, 2008 8:40:53 am PST #9755 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
No, I know. That's what prompted me to write. And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."