Awesomeness...? Believe It.

For those of you wondering what to opt for on the T.V. menu Thursday night between entrées of college football and Suit’s keynote speech, we’ll recommend foregoing the pigskin for that “thrill up my leg” as it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that you will risk missing next Gettysburg address or Sermon on the Mount if you opt for that fly-over fare.

"Barack Obama’s upcoming speech at the Democratic National Convention is—barring the miraculous reanimation of Winston Churchill’s corpse, sometime in mid-July, to recite the Sermon on the Mount in twelve different languages—pretty much a lock to be the rhetorical blockbuster event of the summer. The speech offers, among many other hooks, a tidy dramatic symmetry. Obama first stepped out of the political phone booth on this occasion four years ago, when he gave the climactic keynote address for John Kerry’s otherwise legendarily droopy campaign. In ten minutes, America watched him rip off the rumpled suit of anonymous, mild-mannered state-senatorhood and squeeze into the gaudy cape and tights of our national oratorical superhero—a honey-tongued Frankenfusion of Lincoln, Gandhi, Cicero, Jesus, and all our most cherished national acronyms (MLK, JFK, RFK, FDR). Although he may have been canonized a little quickly, Obama has since managed to justify much of the hype."

That, from an objective member of the print media, New York Magazine writer, Sam Anderson.

Later in his piece and amazingly without a hint of irony, Anderson, at once, praises Suit’s chant-trance meme’, “Yes We Can” while bemoaning the dumbing-down of Presidential oratorical skills. We remember chanting “Yes We Can”… nearly 30 years ago at Angels’ Stadium as kids so its quaint to know that Anderson sees stadium sloganeering as a step back in the right direction. And here’s the part where we refrain from any further messianic stadium rally speechifying analogies. See…. We’re refraining.

He also gives Suit props for his alliterative style, “sentence sequence” and “triadic phrases”. Got news for ya, sport. We saw that schtick 20 years ago at a homeless benefit concert (btw, Los Lobos rocked!) on the Mall in D.C. and all we could think of was Dr. Seuss...



For his efforts, and indeed it was grandiose, Mr. Sam Anderson has been nominated for Beers with Demo’s Putridity in Journalism award to be named at the end of the year. Congratulations, Sam.

H/T: And a very special “hat tip” it is to KT for turning us on to this gem.

P.S. The picture above was the one run by the mag and it speaks volumes. So blinded by their own devotion, they can't surface for a long enough time to realize the image screams "narcissism". We are the people we've been waiting for.