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In His Defense, He At Least Doesn’t Hold an Elected Office

Monday, November 16th, 2009

This is pretty funny.

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14 Responses to “In His Defense, He At Least Doesn’t Hold an Elected Office”

  1. #1 |  Brian Despain |  November 16th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Well the guy asking Al Sharpton to sign the “pocket constitution” doesn’t say “US Constitution” I thought it was a student constitution of some sort.

  2. #2 |  Andrew Williams |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    “An error occurred; please try again later.”

  3. #3 |  CC |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Awesome.

  4. #4 |  Mike Leatherwood |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I lol’d.

  5. #5 |  MikeZ |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Lol,
    But to be fair you’d get the same response from me. How do I know its a pocket constitution without actually reading it first.

  6. #6 |  Kristen |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Well, he could have, you know, stopped to take a look at it. how busy coud Al Sharpton possibly be that he can’t stop for 2 seconds!

    Loved the video!

  7. #7 |  Dave Krueger |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Too many people get wrapped up in the character of a genius, as if genius must necessarily be devoid of any of the quirks that makes people human. I can despise someone and still be in awe of their abilities. As an engineer, I find that I can overlook huge personality defects if someone knows what they’re doing, professionally. It’s an attitude of taking the good and leaving the bad.

    I have found that I can value the work of someone without feeling any need to idolize them (or even like them), but that’s just the opposite of what you see these days. Someone sees a movie they like, and suddenly they think the star walks on water. A song gets popular and soon a rock star is admired for his views on world affairs and everyone is stunned when he has problems like the rest of us. Presidential candidates commonly try to capitalize on that aspect of culture, by making themselves bigger than life and the country is inevitably disappointed after he’s elected and it turns out he’s not much different from the last president (even though this one can at least talk coherently).

    I see Atlas Shrugged as an unmatched work of genius. I don’t have to worship Ayn Rand, or be blind to her eccentricities (or try to rationalize them). Do you still admire Thomas Jefferson’s love of liberty and equality even knowing he owned slaves?

  8. #8 |  Dave Krueger |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Oops. Sorry. #7 is obviously in the wrong place. It was supposed to be under Peter Bagge on Ayn Rand, so I reposted it over there.

  9. #9 |  MattH |  November 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    I was really looking forward to your explanation of how Al Sharpton is a true genius. ;-)

    Now it makes sense.

  10. #10 |  MikeZ |  November 16th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Yeah Dave,

    I Lol’ed at that comment far more than the original video. The anticipation for what could your punchlike possibly be was great.

  11. #11 |  Dave Krueger |  November 16th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Videos are blocked where I work, so I will have to wait until I get home to get the full impact of my misplaced post. :)

  12. #12 |  Andrew |  November 16th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Dave wins.

  13. #13 |  Dave Krueger |  November 17th, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Hahaha! Saw the video. Love it.

  14. #14 |  JPMcGrath |  November 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    ROTFL. Too funny!

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