Bad Attitudes: Lip Service

April 03, 2006

Lip Service

I say it again: can a man with purple lips become president? (Though, in his favor, the effect is far less pronounced in photographs than it is in person. Drown lately, Senator?)

Posted by Wayne Uff at April 03, 2006 06:35 AM

Comments

To be fair, it is not the color of his lips that would be the main problem with him becoming President in Redneck America.

- Badtux the Color-blind Penguin

Posted by: BadTux on April 3, 2006 8:44 PM

Yes. Yes, he can.

Posted by: Chuck Dupree (Belisarius) on April 4, 2006 4:22 AM

The Barack Obama phenomenon bothers me. I like what he's done for the most part, but it isn't much. He's the anti-old-war-horse. He's being hyped far too much far too early. Maybe 2012 if he does good until then. He's even young enough for 2016.

Patience folks. Let Barack learn and season.

But then there's the purple lip thing...

Posted by: spiiderweb on April 4, 2006 9:51 AM

Enough with the purple lip thing. Didn't George Washington have purple lips?

Posted by: t on April 4, 2006 9:58 AM

Gotta disagree, T: NOT enough with the purple lip thing. In fact, not nearly enough. I'm riding this train straight through to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

As to Spidey, I agree 100 percent, as you probably know from prior posts about Obama here. Giving one above-average speech does not make you a good U.S. senator:

http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/001730.html

Neither does doing such ridiculous things as voting to promote C. Rice to secretary of state well after it was clear she was the author of the worst foreign policy disaster by far in U.S. history:

http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/002327.html

and:

http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/003617.html

And, giving Bush essentially a pass on the whole war thing:

http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/003407.html

However, the first decent thing Obama has done, and one that required real courage, was to try to take away the corporate jets from his fellow senators, who are now mad as hell at Barack:

http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/003726.html

Bottom line: potentially interesting man, jury still out. Except with respect to the purple, drowning-victim lips: the jury is in on that.

Posted by: Wayne Uff on April 4, 2006 3:10 PM