La Morte d’Unicorn

Uncomfortably numb. John Heilemann in New York magazine:

Yet the emerging doubts about Obama among even his most ardent and sensible fans are deeper and more nuanced than that. After 300-plus days in office, the president remains, for many of his supporters, a worryingly indistinct figure. One whose pragmatic sensibility is crystal clear but bedrock convictions are still blurry.

Well, those convictions are only blurry if you keep ignoring items like this:

Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.

Then again, we’ve had plenty of time to get used to it.

Obama Lost, Obama Found [New York, via Political Wire]

Following Bush-era argument, Obama attorneys push to weaken search protections [Raw Story]

nojo
2:49 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009
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Choose Your Delusion

And Then There Were Two Grifter

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Benedick

4:32 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

Yes, well, once again noje scores points for prescience.

Damn you and your dot-connecting ways! Is that a cheezbuger I see before me? Or ground unicorn?

nojo

4:55 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

@Benedick: No credit to me — I was just catching up with the mood of the Below-the-Timestampers that day. One of the items on that list was the Last Straw, if I recall.

If memory serves, that’s also when I dropped “Unicorn” and switched to “Barry”. That Scarfe Scream was my latent idealism dying.

Dodgerblue

5:12 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

@nojo: Let’s not forget what the alternative was.

nojo

6:05 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

@Dodgerblue: I’ll be the first to grant that. But with the Enthusiasm Gap in the news, I think it’s important to note that grievances are (by now) longstanding, and may have unpleasant consequences.

Benedick

6:07 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

@nojo: Word. And let’s not forget what the alternative is.

Mistress Cynica

11:28 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

Just so I can be a grammar bitch in two languages, it’s actually, “La Morte de la Licorne.”

nojo

11:46 pm • Monday • November 30, 2009

@Mistress Cynica: I’m not a Strunk & White nazi, but I’m sure somewhere Andy mentions expression trumping grammar.

SanFranLefty

12:09 am • Tuesday • December 1, 2009

@Mistress Cynica: As the originator of the label Unicorn, I’m okay with the Frenglish in the caption.