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A sort of insensitive thing to say
Dec. 1st, 2012 08:55 amOkay, the last Presidential campaign, some really superficial judgments on appearance.
Mitt Romney definitely looks and kinda sounds like a used car salesman. He's wants to get you into the used 1996 vintage Saab of your dreams. No, not that one, the one next to it. It's only got 144000 miles or so on it. Please don't worry about that dark splotch under the front of the car, that's just water and it's from the last car that was parked there anyway. Ryan just looked like some sort of upper management type, the sort of guy who TALKS VERY LOUDLY NEXT TO YOU IN STARBUCKS BECAUSE HE'S TAKING A VERY IMPORTANT CALL.
Whereas Barak Obama? I voted for the guy and I think Michelle is an awesome first lady but frankly they kinda look like a savvy casting choice for the parts.
"Okay, so we need someone to play the President for the scene where they get the President out of the White House just as the aliens bust in with the zap rays." Someone dignified but not too old, just old enough to go gray in really sternatorian looking ways. Fairly healthy looking everyman sort. Not one of the big Hollywood names.
You know the ads for home improvement products, insurance, security systems, and other things for well-off suburbanites? Where there's always a wholesome upper middle class couple installing a polished stone countertop or finding a vehicle with a high safety rating to pack their wholesome upper middle class kids into? And they'll do things like smile at each other while settling into the beige couch in their newly-beige-painted living room for a nice steaming cup of coffee, or look delighted by the new all-you-can-eat Shrimptacular at Red Lobster? Yeah. That's sort of what the Obamas look like.
This sort of fits with my opinion that Joe Biden plays the weatherbeaten blue-collar widower father in this season's top romantic comedy. I'd say that if we were going for edgy romantic comedy, he's the hero's boyfriend's father, and they're pretty terrified of coming out to him, but it turns out he's actually cool with people being Gay, so cue big laughs all around.
Mitt Romney definitely looks and kinda sounds like a used car salesman. He's wants to get you into the used 1996 vintage Saab of your dreams. No, not that one, the one next to it. It's only got 144000 miles or so on it. Please don't worry about that dark splotch under the front of the car, that's just water and it's from the last car that was parked there anyway. Ryan just looked like some sort of upper management type, the sort of guy who TALKS VERY LOUDLY NEXT TO YOU IN STARBUCKS BECAUSE HE'S TAKING A VERY IMPORTANT CALL.
Whereas Barak Obama? I voted for the guy and I think Michelle is an awesome first lady but frankly they kinda look like a savvy casting choice for the parts.
"Okay, so we need someone to play the President for the scene where they get the President out of the White House just as the aliens bust in with the zap rays." Someone dignified but not too old, just old enough to go gray in really sternatorian looking ways. Fairly healthy looking everyman sort. Not one of the big Hollywood names.
You know the ads for home improvement products, insurance, security systems, and other things for well-off suburbanites? Where there's always a wholesome upper middle class couple installing a polished stone countertop or finding a vehicle with a high safety rating to pack their wholesome upper middle class kids into? And they'll do things like smile at each other while settling into the beige couch in their newly-beige-painted living room for a nice steaming cup of coffee, or look delighted by the new all-you-can-eat Shrimptacular at Red Lobster? Yeah. That's sort of what the Obamas look like.
This sort of fits with my opinion that Joe Biden plays the weatherbeaten blue-collar widower father in this season's top romantic comedy. I'd say that if we were going for edgy romantic comedy, he's the hero's boyfriend's father, and they're pretty terrified of coming out to him, but it turns out he's actually cool with people being Gay, so cue big laughs all around.