The Office of the President Elect

[RocketMan]

"Breathe deep, the gathering gloom..."

Watch lights fade from every room...

Bedsitter people Obama voters look back and lament, another day's election's useless energy franchise spent.

[Angel Eyes]

Watch lights fade from every room...

STOP.  THAT.  RIGHT.  NOW.

No Moody Blues flashbacks. It's in the rules.  Somewhere.  Or at least it should be.

[Monkeyleg]

I don't recall any politician whose ego was so over the top, at least publicly. Does anyone else?

[RocketMan]

I don't recall any politician whose ego was so over the top, at least publicly. Does anyone else?

I don't either, Monkeyleg.  Scary stuff, isn't it?
(That said, I wonder if LBJ was similarly egotistical out of the public eye?  No evidence of such, just that I wonder...)

[RevDisk]

I don't recall any politician whose ego was so over the top, at least publicly. Does anyone else?

Yes.   Someone whom Obama is appearing to mirror quite closely...


Huey Long. 

[280plus]

STOP.  THAT.  RIGHT.  NOW.

No Moody Blues flashbacks. It's in the rules.  Somewhere.  Or at least it should be.

Yea, especially since after hearing that tune about 2 million times now I can't stand it anymore. That and "Whiter Shade of Pale"...   

 

[Uncle Bubba]

I don't either, Monkeyleg.  Scary stuff, isn't it?
(That said, I wonder if LBJ was similarly egotistical out of the public eye?  No evidence of such, just that I wonder...)

He was. Anecdotes abound, but I can only pull a couple from the memory banks at the moment.

Lyndon was almighty pissed about Jack Kennedy's reputation as a cocksman. He said to one of his aides, (edited for possible underage readers) "What's so great about him? I've had more [strange] by accident than he's ever got!"

One day aboard Air Force One he said to a group of aides,"Churchill's dead...de Gaulle is old...who else is there?" (thumped his chest with both hands) "Now I am king!"

[280plus]

Nixon, when giving orders, refered to himself as "The President" as in, "The President wants you to..."

[Balog]

Yea, especially since after hearing that tune about 2 million times now I can't stand it anymore. That and "Whiter Shade of Pale"...   

 

What song is this?

[280plus]

"Knights in White Satin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

Unfortunately(?) the clip is incomplete, at the end of the tune there's a little poem following that's in narrative form and it starts, "Breathe deep the gathering gloom..."

Found it:

Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day's useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.

and wouldn't you know it, right there at the top of the "related" list at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI&feature=related

I guess they're related because they've both been overplayed into suckdom. 

[Don't care]

Nixon, when giving orders, refered to himself as "The President" as in, "The President wants you to..."

Dick Nixon was also mentally ill.

[Uncle Bubba]

Dick Nixon was also mentally ill.

'S funny, when I read 280's post and before I got to yours my mind was once again pondering the question, "Are people who habitually refer to themselves in the third person psychopaths?"

It's as though they're observers of their own life. If they're unable or unwilling to to refer to themselves as "I", what does that indicate about their level of consideration for the validity of anyone else's existence? Then again, they may just be self-important pr*cks.

[Sergeant Bob]

It's as though they're observers of their own life. If they're unable or unwilling to to refer to themselves as "I", what does that indicate about their level of consideration for the validity of anyone else's existence? Then again, they may just be self-important pr*cks.

I'll take "Self-important pr*cks for $500 Alex!

[RevDisk]

'S funny, when I read 280's post and before I got to yours my mind was once again pondering the question, "Are people who habitually refer to themselves in the third person psychopaths?"

It's as though they're observers of their own life. If they're unable or unwilling to to refer to themselves as "I", what does that indicate about their level of consideration for the validity of anyone else's existence? Then again, they may just be self-important pr*cks.

Any thoughts on folks who have no problems referring to themselves in the first person, but who refer to other people in the third person?   


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToNZHG5KHw     

[Uncle Bubba]

Any thoughts on folks who have no problems referring to themselves in the first person, but who refer to other people in the third person?  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToNZHG5KHw    

Jay-ZUS! That was...I mean...what the...

But then...   Should I be frightened because I really liked it?

And why isn't there ever a big ol' double-handed doobie around when I really need one?

[Waitone]

Just looking at pictures in this thread and a few others in the media from the last few days, I gotta ask:  Is O'Bama shrinking?  He seems to be getting smaller as time advances.  Maybe I'm viewing too much into it.