The barbarians are at the gates.
Check the box to choose your defender:
[ ] Barack Obama?
Or...
[ ] Vladimir Putin?
Posted by Kate at October 11, 2009 2:13 PMScary isn't it?
Posted by: The Phantom at October 11, 2009 2:29 PMoh! the dishes are done Barry? how bout you find something useful to do in the livin room now.
Posted by: marc in calgary at October 11, 2009 2:34 PMoh! the dishes are done Barry? how bout you find something useful to do in the livin room now......
like laying in the corner and licking your a@@ like a good dog?
Posted by: marc in calgary at October 11, 2009 2:34 PM
Fixed that up fer ya,marc.
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 11, 2009 2:42 PMBest pick the nicest barbarian you can.
Posted by: Pat at October 11, 2009 3:25 PMI blame soy
Posted by: Doug at October 11, 2009 3:28 PMNothing wrong with hanging a curtain rod. But W or R wouldn’t need a nervous dude to hold the ladder for them.
Posted by: Cal at October 11, 2009 3:41 PMNot sure I understand the question ... but from a guy's point of view ... given a choice - I'd let Obama hang the curtains and go fishing with Vlad.
Posted by: ∞² at October 11, 2009 3:43 PMIsn't hanging a curtain in the WH a union job? Doesn't SEIU or whatever do that? Stealing the job of a working man..outrageous.
Posted by: Speedy at October 11, 2009 3:47 PM ∞²
****Not sure I understand the question ... but from a guy's point of view ... given a choice - I'd let Obama hang the curtains and go fishing with Vlad.****
Yep----you and me both....
Posted by: sasquatch at October 11, 2009 3:57 PMIt's a toss-up between Margaret Thatcher and Michael Ignatieff. Thatcher would certainly be better at fighting the barbarians, but Ignatieff could make them collapse in laughter by delivering a stern "make no doubt, my friends" speech.
While wearing an ascot.
Posted by: EBD at October 11, 2009 4:01 PMObama as defender?
ha ha ha hee hee hee ha ha gasp ha ha hee hee ha wipes tears from eyes ha ha
Posted by: Kathryn at October 11, 2009 4:02 PMI am amazed how teenage "men" speak these days. When I went to school, such effeminate talk was rare - now everyone talks like a gossipy poofter.
I'm hoping they grow out of it.
Posted by: rabbit at October 11, 2009 4:33 PMI don't want either of these men running things, period.
Here's a fellow who should run things:
http://ihasahotdog.com/upcoming/?pid=36897
Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe at October 11, 2009 5:15 PMYep...the real men are the guys working in the bush, not afraid to get their hands and boots dirty, and satisfied with sore muscles at the end of the day.Love that picture of GWB.
My kind.Anytime.
(Just want to clarify, for those that aren't aware...I am a real woman. Sometimes assumptions are made about the 'tech' part of my name.)
I vote for Iggy to take the world stage. He could tell the Taliban and Al-Qaeda their time is up.
Posted by: Sounder at October 11, 2009 5:48 PMIf I was a dyke fair maiden it wound be putin for sure.
Posted by: Gord Tulk at October 11, 2009 6:02 PMI can't comment on this as I actually had to hang some curtains today. In my defense I did get to use power tools. Hopefully it balances out.
Posted by: gord at October 11, 2009 6:23 PMRe Obama community organizing vs Putin's gun show, another post I can't get too excited about. Getting all worked up about this is just as bad as my friends who slagged Harper for his NAC performance. It's lame "gotcha" tactics.
Posted by: Erik Larsen at October 11, 2009 6:49 PMbtw Barry, that curtain isn't straight. Get a level, man! wtf!
Posted by: The Phantom at October 11, 2009 7:29 PMgord: "Hopefully it balances out."
Yeah, you're probably OK on that ... unless, of course, you actually had someone taking pictures of you doing it.
You had a game on the tube while you were doing it, right?
Posted by: ∞² at October 11, 2009 7:36 PMliberalism and real men don't mix well
correction
liberal MEN are extinct as a species
Thatcher would be my choice of leaders in the last 30 years to stand up to bullies. But of the two choices above, Putin is a Kagy kind of guy and wants to make a non-Marxist Russia great again while "The One" just threw the Czechs, Hungarians, Baltic States and Poland under the bus.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at October 11, 2009 8:01 PMoo2 said "You had a game on the tube while you were doing it, right?"
I had Social Distortion live in Orange County on. Oh crap. I'm going straight to Hell aren't I?
I think you made a mistake. That looks like the list of barbarians, not the defenders.
Posted by: POWinCA at October 11, 2009 8:40 PMI've always said Barry Owe was just window dressing :-)
Posted by: RW at October 11, 2009 8:50 PMWere I a fair maiden, of course, I'd take my chances with Obama.
Sure he's a pussy. But I cannot get over Vlad's psychopathic stare.
(Since I'm a man, of course, I'd choose Vlad. Then shoot him on the back at the first opportunity.)
Yeah, that Bush is a real man alright!
Ask Victor Ashe and Jeff Gannon! (Google is your friend). ;0
Posted by: bleet at October 11, 2009 9:11 PMLiberal males are just wimpy men who have gotten in touch with their inner lesbian.
Posted by: Momar at October 11, 2009 9:23 PMbleet .
hows about Trudeau the bise xual? one of your liberals?
though methinks ye a yank.
Posted by: cal2 at October 11, 2009 9:34 PMclose but no cigar bleet.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bleet
Posted by: marc in calgary at October 11, 2009 9:37 PMLOL !!!
ah that's mean.
democracy is overrated. if not for Putin the hard line traditionalist, russia would be run by billionaire crime bosses.
Canada does have the Beaver as its symbol. Nothing more need be said.
Where the only people on the Planet with a Rodent as a Totem.
JMO
ah curious_george, I looked at flicker too for bleet, without much improvement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bronzebrew150/3261361553/
and for a look at Russia and Mr. Putin have a read through this... it ain't so pretty over there and everyday a new disaster unfolds.
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/
Posted by: marc in calgary at October 11, 2009 10:11 PMHmmm - in a post lamenting 'pussyfication', we are invited to imagine ourselves as "fair damsels".
Someone's workingout some issues, no?
"lookit that wimpy Obama hanging drapes! Guffaw!"
What cogent political commentary.
Posted by: bleet at October 11, 2009 10:23 PMRuy Diaz: (Since I'm a man, of course, I'd choose Vlad. Then shoot him on the back at the first opportunity.)
That hit the funny bone, Ruy -- you've made my day!
Bleet, you had to look up "cogent".
Remember- we're never laughing WITH you.
Actually, Obama is in tremendous shape. Whether he'd be willing to fight is another question, but I'll bet he could.
Also, my Sensei is a 6th degree black belt, who also has great fashion sense. One can hang drapes and still be able to beat the shit out of people.
Posted by: Darrell at October 11, 2009 11:49 PMleonardo decaprio as a tough guy in "gangs of new york" was the most laughable thing till Obama became the "leader" of the free world.
Posted by: cal2 at October 12, 2009 12:02 AMWhen I worked for the Feds I used to say there were men and women and here it is women and women lite.
Posted by: Speedy at October 12, 2009 12:12 AMWhat with packing around his Nobel award I doubt Ogabe has much time for defending anyone but his supreme wonderfulness.
Posted by: Slim at October 12, 2009 12:52 AMRussia is being run by a billionaire crime boss: Vlad the Empoisoner.
I guess that's the way most Russians like it. They could not wait to turn themselves into slaves to another Tsar Grozhny once again. May their chains rest lightly upon them.
Posted by: Michael Lonie at October 12, 2009 12:54 AMRequired reading from one of my favourite, alas retired, bloggers: "The Pussification of the Western Male"
http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/41/
Posted by: edr at October 12, 2009 1:41 AMVoting in that poll is like choosing between anthrax and bubonic plague.
Posted by: nv53 at October 12, 2009 1:54 AM"Canada does have the Beaver as its symbol. Nothing more need be said.
Where the only people on the Planet with a Rodent as a Totem.
JMO"
And let us not forget,revnant,the beaver will also chew off its own testicles to escape a trap.Great ideal to look up to.Can't get more pussified than that! (sorta like bleet)
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 12, 2009 1:56 AMHow can you have real men without REAL women?
'Not enough moms at home over the past 40 years. Little boys get wussified by the peer orientation thing in daycare, where they're thrown in with all those little girls and their lib-left-socialist-fem-gay caregivers.
Moms bring up little men who turn into real men while substitute caregivers turn out girly men, "nice" men, pushover men. After all, with a room full of kids, do you want the he-man or the appeaser? What makes your day a little easier?
Posted by: batb at October 12, 2009 8:18 AMand so the USA dream ends , not with a bang but with a wimp heir.
Posted by: cal2 at October 12, 2009 9:48 AMIf I was a fair liberal maiden, if there is such a thing, I'd take Obama with me to see "The Vagina Monologues".
Posted by: Canadian Infidel at October 12, 2009 10:25 AMGood comparison of GW Bush's pitch and Obama's pitch. You will have to scroll down a bit to find the 'Pitching Analysis'
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/07/
Posted by: Jenn at October 12, 2009 10:36 AMBlue, I did think you were a guy, but not because of the "tech" in your name. I'd assumed so because of some of your epic cursing in the past. What happened to the passion Blue?
Posted by: Indiana Homez at October 12, 2009 11:19 AM
You think that is scary, if my country falls into CWII the Conservative Christian Nascar-Dads will have to align with the likes of Aryan Nation Skinhead KKK Nazis.
Auntie Em. auntie Em.
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putin would kick there azz but the cost would be high as selling your soul to the devil comes with a steep price.
do you see a bear? but if there is a bear
Posted by: yochanan ben avrohom at October 12, 2009 4:39 PMFrankly, I don't like the choices. While not conservative enough, "W" is definitely a man's man. The picture of him is terrific. My kind of guy.
Can you imagine BO driving up in an F-250 as "W" sometimes did at Crawford? Heh. I picture him in a Tercel or the ultimate metrosexual ride, a bimmer.
"W" is more than a man - he's a man's man.
Just ask Jeff Gannon!
Posted by: bleet at October 12, 2009 6:36 PMActually I think this is a trick question. Both these guys are going to hire somebody to save the fair maiden. And given the kind of folks both of them hang out with the maiden might do worse than to go with the barbarians. It's 6-5 and pick 'em.
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