“The trouble with Obama is.......”

Yesterday (Wednesday, September 23, 2009) my wife of nearly 42 years made one of her cogent observations she’s want to make.
Which is why I married her.
She’s like my long-lost cousin Judy, who could carry on an intellectually stimulating conversation.
“The trouble with Barack Obama,” my wife said; “is that he’s too reasonable. He’s always appealing to reason.”
“Yeah,” I shouted. “And that’s the bane of all rational people, especially with fear-mongers like Rush Limbaugh, goosesteeping Annie, and Sarah Palin roiling the populace.”
“Reason doesn’t cut it any more,” she said. “He needs to appeal to emotion.”
“And the el-cheapo, ad-hominem pot-shot,” I added. “Just like Rush Limbaugh. It’s called ‘scoring points.’” (“Gotcha!”)
The other day I happened to be trying to find photo-storage for this here blog, and a previous coworker suggested Kodak EasyShare.
“FREE, with minimal annual purchase,” it said.
“WHAT?” I cried. “Find the logic in that!” I shouted.
Is this the future? ....What things are coming to?
How about “after minimal annual purchase.”
What they meant, I’m sure; but they ain’t hornswoggling this kid with logic like that.
So much for EasyShare — I looked elsewhere.
I suppose that makes me a jerk.

• “Goosesteeping Annie” is of course Ann Coulter.