Obama Biden? Are you serious???
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Can you make it ANY easier for people to assimilate and/or make fun of this as "Osama Bin Laden"?
Tags: pendejos, politics, sheep
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I think Barack-Biden would have been a better choice, and heard many headlines decided to use that instead because of the weirdnes...
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I think Barack-Biden would have been a better choice, and heard many headlines decided to use that instead because of the weirdness. It is a little strange for a lot of people. The American government and the media pounded us with the name of the so called leader of 9/11 Osama bin laden for years. It is not just Goliath that recognized this, but some of my friends that live in other countries are laughing at it also. We(U.S.A) are that kid in high school that just can not stop wicked irony from happening. I do not like Joe Biden personally, so i think of it as a little tragic. From a marketing perspective i guess it can work. People are talking and noticing. [show less] |
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This topic was started by Goliath
on August 24th, 2008. 2 grupies have voted on one or more of the 1 answers.
Tags: pendejos, politics, sheep
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are you serious? this is your criticism of VP choice? what is wrong with you.
a very "troll-esque" topic indeed
No it is my criticism of its ABC's, and it's road to failure in our sixth grade mentality news networks.
Peoples perceptions are also governed by symbols.
i see i was grossly mistaken when i clicked on this topic hoping for sincere political discourse about vice presidential candidates. i was greeted with amateur word games suitable only for the bowels of FreeRepublic.com.
i'm sure there are several if not dozens of reasons to question the rationale behind Obama picking Biden as his running mate, but "dur.. the names are funny" is so vapid and unintelligent that the words to describe it escape me.
I don't know.... vapid and unintelligent describes it fairly well.
"Dur... the names are funny" is what A LOT of people will be saying. This IS the level of mentality that I'm talking about, that is being catered to.
Now... Did Osama choose Biden because he was sitting there thinking... "Hmmm.... lets see, how can we really fu*k with average Americans? Haha! Listen to this... It's hilarious.... pass me the joint..."
Not exactly. It's just that the irony is improbably fantastic!
face it, the people with that mentality were not going to vote for Obama when it was just his name on the ticket in the first place. the general public was not swayed by the "scary name" talking point six months ago and they won't be swayed by it now.
Point taken.
NOTE: But this is one game people play.
Usāmah bin Ladens name was altered to "Osama bin Laden". I see no reason to do that. Other than the Usa symbol at the beginning of the former.
there is no accepted standard for transliteration of arabic to english. Osama is just as good phonetically as Usama, Usāmah, Ussamah, or Oussama.
"NOTE: But this is one game people play."
no need to perpetuate the games of the ignorant, lest you appear as them
Goliath: I understand what you are saying - don't think it the least bit trollish. The fact that you can see the sign system/semiotics working is very interesting at least to me.
See some links to Roland Barthes and his structuralism and semiotics model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes
http://www.ic.arizon...s.theory.html
You will see on the second link that there is a lady with the surname Flores involved. Any relation?
The rest of you: There is nothing wrong with Goliath. He has an imagination and he is clearly interested in language and meaning - he is also a poet and a lyricist. His thinking is different from yours that is all. It does not make him a troll or mad or deficient in any way. On the contrary, his interests reveal a rich mindscape. It is a mindscape that is similar to the mindscape of other artists, whatever their art form.