In rare victory, our folks defeat other folks
In a victory for our folks, Saxby Chambliss won the Georgia runoff. Thank goodness. Our folks took a beating on Nov. 4th as the other folks voted for one of their own. A few years ago, the idea that one of the other folks could become president was unthinkable. But the recession, which was obviously caused by the other folks who forced our folks to lend them money, caused some of our folks to foolishly vote for one of the other folks. Our folks who voted for him may also have been influenced by the other-other folks who attacked us on 9/11 and forced our folks to invade one of their countries. The other-other folks then not only refused to show us the love but also lacked the decency to have the WMD's they promised. In other words, the laziness and financial imprudence of the other folks and the intolerance and mendacity of the other-other folks led our folks to help elect one of the other folks (whose middle name proves that he's also one of the other-other folks). Capiche?
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Cross posted at dagblog.com, where I have proclaimed the end of an era, and no one is named Saxby .
That's crazy talk
December 3, 2008 6:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great Comment!!
But it is getting harder and harder to distinguish our folks apart from the other folks and the other-other folks around here.
December 3, 2008 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's what I call America! Soon we'll all just be folks.
December 3, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Folks.... pick your folks! Now, I'm with the folks who see all of us folks as the same folks. But some of the folks who are folks want to identify themselves as "our folks" versus "those folks." Can't we all just be folks?
December 3, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Folks who need folks
Are the luckiest folks in the world
We're children - also folks - needing other children (folks)
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
And don't forget that... uh... people.
December 3, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Beautiful!
December 3, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
And a horse is a horse of course, of course.
This is just too folksy for my tastes.
December 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if this is the headwater of a resurgence of folk music.
December 3, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can pick your friends and you can pick your folks, but you most certainly can't pick your friends' folks.
December 3, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is that a pickled pepper in your pocket - or are you glad to see me?
December 3, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Folk" is one of those words which, if you repeat it and/or see it in print frequently enough, it somehow becomes temporarily divested of meaning...a kind of mental dizziness that numbs language comprehension. This string sure did it to me. Am I losing my mind or is there some kind of neurological phenomenon here?
December 3, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
""Folk" is one of those words which, if you repeat it and/or see it in print frequently enough, it somehow becomes temporarily divested of meaning..."
Just try repeating the word, er, "try" over and over again.
December 3, 2008 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kinda like "friend," my friend. Also, also.
December 3, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was it Josh who postulated that McCain ripped "my friends" from Siouxsie and the Banshees? Can't remember. So who's the folkster?
December 3, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe the people of Georgia folked up but by electing the guy who fondled his granchirren they did elect one of their own folk so the Obama juggernaut is either ended or come to a folk in the road.
December 3, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny names abound. They got Saxby, we got Steny.
December 3, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget the folks who left limbs in Viet Nam, like Max Cleland and many others!
December 3, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think our folks would say "capiche" — you're exposed as a fraud!
December 3, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink