Obama--the grumblings

[capnhowdy]

Actually it should be a promotional. Maybe he stomps the shit out of everyone else because they don't bump the bongo, eh?
RE: Kellogg's
LOFL... yep. I think they have someone who'll keep 'm crunchitized.
We need this dude on our swim team. Let's all send him some weed.
New thread alert!!!!!

~~~Cellar Weed Exchange~~~

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by capnhowdy

Actually it should be a promotional. Maybe he stomps the shit out of everyone else because they don't bump the bongo, eh?
RE: Kellogg's
LOFL... yep. I think they have someone who'll keep 'm crunchitized.
We need this dude on our swim team. Let's all send him some weed.
New thread alert!!!!!

~~~Cellar Weed Exchange~~~

Special K! Theyyyyyyyy're Gr...uh, what was I talking about?

[Aliantha]

I think there's a difference between the demographics for a car manufacturer and a breakfast cereal. I can understand Kellogs point of view here. Lots of kiddies eat cornflakes and Phelps is a role model.

You don't want your kids sucking a pipe after their bowl of cornies do you?...well do you???

Actually, considering the munchies, maybe it was a bad decision to dump him. Instead, they could have come up with a new slogan. Something like, "For the times when you just have to eat something!"

[Shawnee123]

Heehee, I think I made the point earlier that they missed a great marketing connection with the munchies.

Now, about this new Cellar exchange...

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I think there's a difference between the demographics for a car manufacturer and a breakfast cereal. I can understand Kellogs point of view here. Lots of kiddies eat cornflakes and Phelps is a role model.

So, of course, he has to stop being anything resembling an actual person, thus rendering him totally unbelievable.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

You don't want your kids sucking a pipe after their bowl of cornies do you?...well do you???

My kids don't have a clue who he is. Now, if you ask them about the latest music video star, well, that's another story.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Actually, considering the munchies, maybe it was a bad decision to dump him. Instead, they could have come up with a new slogan. Something like, "For the times when you just have to eat something!"

Oh, yeah. Or "Kellogs: Because stuffing your face with Doritos is gauche".

[capnhowdy]

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[Aliantha]

My opinion is that sports stars get paid a lot of money and most of that comes only because they are loved by the public. You don't shit where the money's coming from. Yes you can have a normal life, but learn to be discreet and try not to get caught breaking the law, no matter how archaic that law might happen to be.

My kids know who he is and I suspect most kids in school know who he is. maybe yours are too young.

[classicman]

repeat Ali's sentiments

[capnhowdy]

Ali:"My opinion is that sports stars get paid a lot of money and most of that comes only because they are loved by the public. You don't shit where the money's coming from. Yes you can have a normal life, but learn to be discreet and try not to get caught breaking the law, no matter how archaic that law might happen to be."

"My kids know who he is and I suspect most kids in school know who he is. maybe yours are too young."

No problem.
pssstt... you could have just read her post again.

[xoxoxoBruce]

After years of rigorous training, the Olympics, then a whirlwind of TV shows, interviews and being told do this/do that, he finally had a chance to relax with old friends.
Leave Michael Alone

[Aliantha]

Some great friends he has. lol

[capnhowdy]

MICHAEL:

We love your stroke even though you smoke.

[Shawnee123]

Your stroke is long, even with a bong


You swim like fish, even though you smoked a dish.


NP, man...people don't really care.

[classicman]

Just to get back on topic....

Where's the President Obama who promised to unite us?

Before it gets lost in the mists of time, here's a fact worth recalling. Prior to President Obama's inauguration, his team had big dreams about the stimulus bill. As Politico.com reported early last month, "Obama aides have said they want to get 80 votes in the Senate to demonstrate bipartisan support and so that Democrats alone cannot be blamed for the breathtaking spending."

That's only six weeks old, but already it feels like ancient history. The hopes of our government uniting to face the staggering financial crisis have been dashed. Instead, we have a deepening mistrust that is so infuriating because it is so ordinary.

With only three Republicans supporting the $800 billion stimulus package, and with its 1,100 pages getting a final vote before they are read, the measure that was supposed to lift the nation has added to the sense of breakdown.

The solution is now part of the problem.

Obama deserves most of the blame. Because he's the President with a mandate and a congressional majority, Republicans would have had to go along - if the President had kept his word to change Washington.

But Obama isn't keeping his word. He is shutting out views that don't match his own, and is back on the campaign trail, as though giving a speech to adoring crowds liberates him from the burdens of the White House. After more than two years of campaigning to get there, one would think he would be ready to govern.

The evidence that he is instead choosing a partisan path and a permanent campaign lies most recently in Sen. Judd Gregg's abrupt withdrawal to be commerce secretary. The New Hampshire Republican's decision to join the administration was hailed as proof of Obama's sincere bipartisan outreach, so Gregg's withdrawal over his unease with Obama's policies must be seen as proof to the contrary.

This is no small moment in the making of an administration. The sense of disappointment in Obama is spreading, as are concerns about the consequences of a bait-and-switch presidency.

The global selloff in stock markets after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner put out a half-baked plan for fixing the financial system is a clear verdict. His arguing that investors missed the point is telling.

Once again, a White House has all the answers and everybody else is wrong. Obama, like his predecessor, doesn't lack for confidence, only for others who share it.

Originally Posted by classicman

Just to get back on topic....

Where's the President Obama who promised to unite us?

I'm not sure I get your point?

One conservative columnist at the NY Post who thinks Obama deserves most of the blame for the continued partisanship after one month....represents what? Public opinion?

You could have simply posted Limbaugh.

Obama--the grumblings?

Where are the grumblings coming from other than Republicans who are unwilling to budge from their rigid ideology at all (the stimulus plan MUST be mostly tax breaks!) Damn, you got 1/3 of the package in tax breaks - an accommodation by Obama.....(the Democrats are passing the burden on to our kids)....hypocrites...look at your own record and policies that contributed to the mess we're in before you start throwing stones.

All I have heard for the last few weeks is a lot of misrepresentations of the stimulus bill (the mouse, the mouse!) and lots whining when they don't get everything they want.

Suck it up...you're the minority. You have to give a little. In fact, you have to give alot to get a little. That's what it means to be the minority.

But I honestly don't believe the Republicans want to compromise or build consensus. I think they have chosen the strategy of putting all their eggs in the basket that if Obama fails, it will be to their advantage in 2010.