In The Graveyard of Empires
How does Obama’s popularity rating dip 18 points in a single year? According to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show:
- Lose points trying to close Gitmo; double points lost when he failed
- Minus “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
- Two trips to Copenhagen, divided by bupkis; subtract Nobel Prize - “Somehow, that’s a minus”
- Minus Henry Louis Gates fallout - “Pettiness raised to the power of class, raised to the power of race, times three beers, divided by siding with a black professor against a cop in Boston”
- Multiplied by 10% unemployment
- Subtract political capital spent on healthcare inititiative “only to have it derailed by a Cosmo centerfold pinup”
- Adds up to -24 points. “Thank God for Bo, the Portuguese water dog - without those six points, Obama would be screwed.
Reblogged from Postmodernista
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