Now, the truth comes out. Barack Obama has a thing for "johnnycakes." I didn't even know those were a real thing, I thought "The Sopranos" made it up. As lost tapes go, this is a pretty stark contrast from the stuff the wingnuts tried to push on us during the campaign. It's good to win. It's also good to see that Obama has better taste in restaurants than his Surgeon General-Designate.
One of my Chicago pals just passed along a fascinating pair of vintage video clips from a Chicago-based PBS restaurant review show, "Check, Please!" Back in 2001, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the show invited a trio of amateur reviewers to pick their favorite restaurants.
One of the participants was Obama, then a largely unknown state senator. His fellow amateur critics, a local firefighter and a retail buyer, were no match for him.
They actually canned the episode because Obama was too good. Is there anything he's not good at? The guy is like Buckaroo Banzai.
I hope this isn't the last video treasure to emerge from Obama's past. I'm still looking forward to his lost "Star Wars" audition.
As Stormtrooper: "We are the 'droids we've been looking for."
As Luke: (casting director, off camera) "You don't actually have to walk on the sky, it's just the character's name."
As Darth Vader: "Luke, I am your father. And you were born in Kenya."
Here are the 2 excerpts from the show that are available on YouTube. Bon Appetit!
Bonus content: I thought my conservative friends would get a kick out of this screenshot of the web ad that accompanied the "Check, Please!" video. All I can say is, "Mwah-ha-ha! Suck it, conservatives!"
Does that make Biden Jar-Jar? Meesah like the train.
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Candy
9:25PM Jan 9th 2009
Ummm, uhhh...(to quote our president-elect, without a teleprompter). Check your facts. Obama wasn't a JUNIOR Senator until 2005. Prior to that, I believe he may have been a community organizer and a congressman for about a week.
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Jennifer
10:01PM Jan 9th 2009
Yes Candy, Ummmm uhhhhh, you're right. Then he moved on to the Senate to Ummmmmm Uhhhhhhhh vote Ummmmm Uhhhhhhhh "present"!
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Michelle
10:07PM Jan 9th 2009
Im from Texas, what's a Johnnycake?
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Lonni
10:32PM Jan 9th 2009
Michelle, a johnny cake is cornbread mix cooked like pancakes instead of baked. It's really good! Especially with beans and fried potatoes.
I love the kind of cafes like the one in this video. Just good ole home cookin'
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Cube
10:36PM Jan 9th 2009
Sense bitterness do I in this Darth Candy hmmph? Never Candy's mind on where she was hmmmph? What she was doing. Arisen a New Hope has.
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Pundit
10:39PM Jan 9th 2009
Candy: Blo me! "three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004." Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president is scheduled to begin on January 20, 2009.
He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
The comment at the end.."suck it conservatives" says it ALL ..about the author. How old are you? about 12 perhaps? A nice video, not politically significant. Interesting, Obama looks good. ...so what is your problem? Grow up and join the adult world. Give the bad language and hyper partisanship rest!
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Cube
7:55AM Jan 10th 2009
Lilly4:00AMJan 10th 2009
The comment at the end.."suck it conservatives" says it ALL ..about the author. How old are you? about 12 perhaps? A nice video, not politically significant. Interesting, Obama looks good. ...so what is your problem? Grow up and join the adult world. Give the bad language and hyper partisanship rest!"
What the fuck?
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Wish Belkin
11:44AM Jan 10th 2009
Johnnycakes suck. I mean, they really suck.
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Tonya
1:09PM Jan 10th 2009
Wow!! Obama was pushing for small businessmen back then. He never stopped doing his job even as he supported the topic. I really, really like this man. I know i'll get slammed for it, but that's just how I feel.
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Patty
1:43PM Jan 10th 2009
"...Obama was too good. Is there anything he's not good at? The guy is like Buckaroo Banzai...."
Oh, the blessings of an international early childhood background that is tied to, and grounded with Hawaii :)
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George Shreves
3:21PM Jan 10th 2009
The video was great. Why is Tommy Christopher such a bitter, unhappy little man. Even his picture makes me want to cry. Was he molested as a child? Geez Tommy, lighten up. You give liberals a bad name.
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Clif Kuplen
4:03PM Jan 10th 2009
Jennifer10:01PMJan 9th 2009
Yes Candy, Ummmm uhhhhh, you're right. Then he moved on to the Senate to Ummmmmm Uhhhhhhhh vote Ummmmm Uhhhhhhhh "present"!
xxx
Nice hum job. You training candy?
While you're off doing a superficial job character assassinating, you probably missed what a present vote actually means in the Illinois state legislature.
It means you're present to vote on a modification of the bill you're being polled on, but you will not vote for it the way it stands. Neither will you vote against it. If you actually took time to research something, you'd know this is standard practice in Illinois, but you'd probably rather just repeat what you're told to say. No wonder you're known as Nobots.
It's really easy to dupe the gullible into thinking 'present' means what ever L. Rush Hubbardbaugh wants you to think....hey, lookee here - fist jab, fist jab!
Fetch!!
Fortunately for you the grownups will be back in charge soon.
Meanwhile, can you hum Dixie?
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KC
4:38PM Jan 10th 2009
A Natural Born Citizen...Orly? A discussion of the Obama Eligibility Controversy, with a call to action!
Saturday, January 10, 2009 A letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. David Earl- Graef I am sending this because of the letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Dr.David Earl-Graef but this page has many links to very important information.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 A letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. David Earl- Graef I am sending this because of the letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Dr.David Earl-Graef but this page has many links to very important information.
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Michelle
4:51PM Jan 10th 2009
ahhhhh I see,
Thanks Lonni!
I guess they would be like our fritters....
does sound yummy...
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Pundit
1:33PM Jan 11th 2009
KC, you still need 10M+ popular votes in 2/3 of Dem states that you no longer control. See ya in 2012 for another 2:1 365/538 EC Victory HAHaHA 2008 Voter demographics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008 The following data is based on exit polls taken on November 4.
SOCIAL GROUPS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE, 2008 Party Size Obama McCain Other Democratic 39% 89% 10% 1% Independent 29% 52% 44% 4% Republican >32%< 9% 90% 1% (Ideology) Liberal 22% 89% 10% 1% Moderate 44% 60% 39% 1% Conservative >34%< >20%< 78% 2%
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