Comedian Pete Holmes had a very funny bit about the argument that the advertising company wins because we’re all talking about it, which is really only true if we are also running out and buying Honda CR-V’s by the handful. Which we aren’t. Talk is, as they say, cheap.

Wait a second, FaceTaco. I mean, I appreciate your viewpoint because that is exactly the viewpoint I was curious in hearing about, but if you think that Barack Obama doesn’t take his position seriously, you are out of your mind. Like, disagree with any of his politics, and find in him any number of personal characteristics that you dislike (arrogance, condescension, aloofness, whatever) but if there is one thing that guy takes seriously it is his position? Not only has his entire first term been dedicated towards winning a second term, but there are any number of first-hand reports of the seriousness and gravity with which he treats the specific responsibility of “being president.”

Also, you are wrong to say that his job is not to win over a crowd. You might find this way of doing it annoying, and that makes sense. But giving a dry, humorless policy speech is actually just a different strategy for winning a crowd. All of politics is performance art and play-acting. So, like, you can hate the way he goes about it (the way people hated George W. Bush’s joke about finding WMDs under the oval office couch) but it IS actually part of the job.

Also, if you think that he personally hired Kal Penn to work in his youth outreach communications office, again, come on. That is such a low-level non-issue.

Also.

Thank God you are still here. Day in and day out, that is what I remind myself.

I have some things to say about this, but with this post in particular, I think I have written myself into a corner and will just have to keep it to myself. CARRY ON!

0 comments? Kiss these recaps goodbye, brats!

You stink.

He gets his due in another list and also I think that show gets MORE than enough credit, so everyone relax.

We addressed this in the very first sentence, brat.

Wait, you guys know this isn’t real, right? It didn’t happen? Because reading some of your comments it seems like you guys might think it’s real.