Comments on: Obama’s judgment: was he really the last to know?

By: DuMaurier-Smith

DuMaurier-Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:47:53 +0000

That “riffing a reference to Jerry Maguire” struck me as very apt; I’ve not seen that usage.

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:19:25 +0000

I’m not a musician – but my son is an aspiring professional musician, and is a music composition major at his university. He plays a lot of instruments, but his best instrument is trombone.

By: DuMaurier-Smith

DuMaurier-Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:42:16 +0000

gcotharn: I haven’t seen Jerry Maguire; I’m something of a film illiterate. But riff all you want; I’m too dumb to offend easily. Are you a musician?

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:51:09 +0000

whoa… new word hits the bloggosphere…

Obamageddon

By: Vince P

Vince P — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:50:39 +0000

I can’t stand Obama’s voice. It’s so inconsistant… he’s been slipping into the Black Minister Rhetorical more and more when he’s addressing the press.. but then when he’s at a campaign speaking event and going into attack mode, he sort of goes into an informal inarticulateness.. but then there’s also a slight South-Side Chicago Italian/Irish/Polish accent too.

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:24:33 +0000

I love to say dichotomy. There is a lake in East Texas called Tawakanee. The pronunciation emphasis is on the second syllable, as with dichotomy. I love to say such words: Dichotomy. Dichotomy. Tawakanee. Tawakanee!

And I love to be in a conversations where someone uses a word such as dichotomy in a sentence. Or orthogonal. Or duende! I don’t get to be in such conversations nearly as often as I like. This is one reason I like neoneocon’s blog. I like to be in this conversation – even if it is cyber. It’s still a more interesting conversation than can be had most anywhere else – tactile or cyber.

And, when I said “You had me at dichotomy”, I was just riffing a reference to “Jerry Maguire” dialogue: “You had me at hello”. Nothing more.

By: DuMaurier-Smith

DuMaurier-Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:14:05 +0000

Sorry. Should be “where the vectors meet”.

By: DuMaurier-Smith

DuMaurier-Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:13:01 +0000

Well, “orthogonal” is good too. But the orthogonal relationship of his past to his present image-crafting seems to be what he is trying to explain away with all this rhetoric. Isn’t he trying to bring his past into line with his present to create an unbroken and unidirectional line. Or is that what you mean “when the vectors meet?”

By: strcpy

strcpy — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:40:14 +0000

“You had me at “dichotomy””

Bah, he is simply attempting to keep his past and present lives totally orthogonal to each other. I rather suspect that his run for the presidency to be where the two vectors meet.

BTW, that is one of my favorite words and I use it all the time that I can, it’s a really fun word to say too. As a software engineer I get to use it from time to time for real too!

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:19:58 +0000

Oh, no! I was just having fun!