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11/09/2008 :: 01:55:49 AM
Barry K. Obama Says:

Dear “American Says”,

Ahhhh. I get it! So we’re projecting our own internal myths onto our president, in order to anthropomorphize them and bring them down to earth. This is because we have a human need to make the president feel more like us. It helps us understand their incomprehensible greatness.

In GW’s case, he was such a colossal intellectual giant that we needed to bring him down to earth, in order that us mere humans could understand him. Hence we created the “drinking buddy” myth to make W seem more normal and like us. So we’re calling W a “drinking buddy” even though he doesn’t drink.

And so when we refer to Obama as a “leader’, even though he has never lead, we are saying that he’s a really a blank screen on which we project all of our dreams and desires onto.

11/07/2008 :: 11:05:12 AM
American Says:

The drinking comment isn’t about actual drinking; it’s a common expression referring to someone as the “kind of guy you’d have a beer with” meaning a down-to-earth, jovial fellow that the average Joe Six Pack, as we call him, would befriend. It’s a bit like saying, the presidency is a personal popularity contest not a selection for the best qualified.

11/06/2008 :: 11:33:10 PM
Barry Obama Says:

La Republica’s “drinking buddy” comment is obviously based on political bias and false stereotyping of GW Bush, who quit drinking alcohol 22 years ago. I think that’s shameful reporting. It would also be shameful if one was to refer to Obama as a “snorting buddy”, as he gave that up years ago. Since the media has laid off Obama for his addictive habits, I think it’s only fair to lay off Bush’s.