Patterico's Pontifications

10/29/2008

Barack Obama Is Late

Filed under: 2008 Election — Patterico @ 11:37 pm



Via Michelle comes a YouTube video showing us the intense dedication of Barack Obama.

Yes, it is criticism of Barack Obama and therefore racist. I understand.

53 Responses to “Barack Obama Is Late”

  1. You saved me having to denounce you. Thanks.

    JD (5b4781)

  2. The second coming of Cicero.

    Techie (62bc5d)

  3. “This video is no longer available”

    Looks like someone misbehaved and had to be sent to the Obamessiah’s camp for wayward Obmunists where he will be re-educated, medicated, and regulated into perfect obedience.

    Pedro (50838b)

  4. Not racist at all… just boring, uninteresting, of little consequence, irrelevant

    i like america (d2f951)

  5. A better title would have been:

    The Late Barack Obama

    Dr. K (f196bc)

  6. Hey, at least he was PRESENT! Just another sign of Obamessiah’s extreme arrogance. Habitually being late tells your colleagues that they just are not as important as you are and that they are blessed by your presence, even if somewhat belated. It says, your time is not as important as my time. Ha!

    J. Raymond Wright (d83ab3)

  7. This is the Obama Corollary to Einstein’s Special Relativity. The One is the center of the universe, so all time is defined relative to his movements.

    Beldar (d354dc)

  8. Ignore this. I’m testing to see if the new strike-through code works:

    Test test

    Update: It does!

    DRJ (cb68f2)

  9. Comment by DRJ — 10/30/2008 @ 4:47 pm

    You mean we won’t have to type in trike anymore?

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  10. Well, that doesn’t work, guess I’ll go back to the old system.

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  11. The Baracky Ancilliary Corollary to Beldar’s Theorem on Punctuality says that time began with Baracky’s birth, BB and AB, and that it is racist to point out if he is late.

    JD (5b4781)

  12. AD,

    Strike-out didn’t work for you? It worked for me. Please try it again. In fact, anyone here, please tell me if the strike-out code works for you.

    DRJ (cb68f2)

  13. Please try testing the link and the strike-through codes, and let me know if they work the way you intended to code them.

    DRJ (cb68f2)

  14. tmj is an idiot

    JD (5b4781)

  15. That did not work.

    tmj is an idiot

    JD (5b4781)

  16. It works when I type it in free-hand.

    JD (5b4781)

  17. Did you type < s > or < strike >?

    DRJ (cb68f2)

  18. Because it works for me when I use the strike code, too. Like this.

    DRJ (cb68f2)

  19. I liked the Town Hall video of Barack stumbling all over himself when his teleprompter goes out. Obama and his leftist illuminati ideals are going to wipe out America as we know it.

    Jeff (7ff0a7)

  20. DRJ I used the around your name here.

    DRJ I used the around your name here.

    JD (5b4781)

  21. So that one really got mangled.

    On the first one, I used the box that says strike in it. On the second one, I spelled out /strike.

    JD (5b4781)

  22. In the past I have had to type in “trike” into the strike symbol that the strike box inserts into the text for it to be effective.

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  23. That seems to be the only way the strike function will work for me, or not.

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  24. or not

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  25. Now, if someone could explain to me how to post a link within a comment without the code showing.

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  26. Please try testing the link and the strike-through codes, and let me know if they work the way you intended to code them.

    Okay, let’s try a strikethrough; using the “strike” button above…which shows in Live Preview as struck through although the button only generated a <s></s> pair of tags. (It should have looked like “strikethrough.“)

    And a linky to [object TextRange], just because she’s always entertaining. And that button is broken…looks like the php code isn’t making the assignment of the input line correctly, because that should have looked like Weasel’s instead of [object TextRange].

    IIRC, the buttons are one of the plugins available for WordPress and I know Pat just upgraded the base WordPress…might need to check and see if there are updates to the plugins as well.

    ‘Night all. I have 1600 some odd Linuxen spread about the country screaming to be updated shortly after the election…so I guess I better save some energy for them. 😉

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  27. The link button is not working, and I am afraid that my attempts to try to use it might crash the site. I am truly that bad with the html stuff.

    JD (5b4781)

  28. #25. Another Drew:

    Now, if someone could explain to me how to post a link within a comment without the code showing.

    Here you go. Not to be too simplistic or too techie either, but HTML is a ‘markup language,’ kind of like old time copy editors “marked up” copy before they sent it down to my great uncle who worked in a press room as a linotypist.

    The thing we want to mark up is the address you want to embed in your comment, and here is how we do it. First, we make a mark at the start of the address that tells us where the target of the link is:

    <a href=”some target“>

    Remember, this mark goes before what we want the reader to see, and the target is something like “http://www.beldar.org”, as an example. The we insert the text we want the reader to see: Beldar’s Place. Now, we can tell the linotypist to close the mark up, in this case with an end tag that looks like:

    </a>.

    Note that the tags are matched, there is a beginning & end tag, in this case they are “a” (for “address”) tags…and really can be written as <a></a>; but they are pretty useless that way without the target info in the ‘href=”…”‘ attribute.

    When we put it all together it should look like:

    Beldar’s Place,

    and ideally we’ve just made it possible for somebody to discover the fine mind of Bill Dyer in Texas.

    Hope that helps.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  29. Oops, and if I typed a little slower, the characters would all look like:

    <a href="http=www.beldar.org">Beldar’s Place<a>

    the beldar.org might be blue (or some other highlight) in your browser, because browsers are allowed to choose how they want to display things.

    And JD, don’t worry about breaking too much stuff. The most common problem for people entering stuff by hand is forgetting to close a tag, like an <em> (emphasis) without a corresponding close tag (</em>), which just makes the rest of the PAGE below it show up as italics!

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  30. EW1…
    I’ve printed that out for study and reference.
    Question:
    How does this relate to the use of the “link” button above the comment box, and the subsequent two windows that open up, the first one labeled
    Explorer User Prompt…

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  31. And for whatever reason, WordPress has munched up part of my comment in #28 and broken the link. If you hover your mouse over the highlighted “Beldar’s Place,” your browser should display the target address someplace for you…and it shouldn’t have http://www.patterico.com in it anywhere.

    So let me just test that again real quick:

    Beldar’s Place.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  32. The code line in #29 clears away a little of the confusion.
    Just trying to figure out how this works with that linky button…

    Another Drew (3eb642)

  33. EW1 – Thank you, Obi Wan. Many have tried, and many have failed to try to teach that to me. I almost think I understand that, which should be more than a little bit scary to anyone reading this.

    JD (5b4781)

  34. Okay, the example in 31 ain’t broke, so I must have fumble fingered something.

    Another Drew:

    How does this relate to the use of…

    The buttons activate a script that provides an interactive way to get the information needed to construct the markup in my example, and that script pops up a little window or something (depending on your browser…Mine will probably never say “Exploder User Prompt” since Internet Exploder doesn’t run on Linux) that gives you a place to enter the information that goes between the quote marks just after ‘href=’ in the example above. Usually that is a hypertext link starting out http://www… something. The second window, is for you to enter the text that you would like the reader to see (Beldar’s Place, e.g.)

    Since the markup tags are pretty formulaic, its typically less error prone to allow the computer to generate the rest of the markup so that things like closure aren’t forgotten, and you don’t end up with half a page of italics, or ever a whole page that is linked to the last pr0n site you visited or something.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  35. #34 JD:

    and many have failed

    And I didn’t do so good either: Someplace there is a bit of a bug that is chewing up our comments, so the tags aren’t being stored correctly. (It isn’t just me fumble fingering something.)

    Our input is stored in a relational database to conserve space, and to allow the server to generate the page you see dynamically. And someplace between what we are typing in, and what is getting sent back to us, there are some fragments of sentences that are getting mixed up where they shouldn’t be.

    IOW, if you type something in, like a link, and you think you did it correctly, chances are you did. Unfortunately, Pat’s site has a few small chiggers or something … ;(

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  36. EW1 – #33 is the first time I have successfully done a link without the aid of the pop-up boxes.

    JD (5b4781)

  37. #39 JD:

    #@)(*$#&)(@_$(&)%@(*_%&@)(&*)&#)(@*^%_@()#)$^#()

    Exactly!

    Unfortunately, that’s what I mean about Pat’s site being a little buggy at the moment: it ain’t you doing that. Someplace in the code that stores and retrieves our comments there is something just a little amiss.

    You do, however, have the basics down…and it will elsewhere…and likely here whenever Pat has a chance to fix it.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  38. er, “will work…”

    English works good for conveying ideas…when you remember to includes them.

    Duh.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  39. This is a link to proteinwisdom

    But that other #)*(%#_$&@#_$&*)@(*&)(@*&^$)(&@ appears to be there again. But, apparently I may be doing it right, so I will take your word for it, and try not to crash the site.

    JD (5b4781)

  40. #42 JD: You got it down, and don’t worry. While a bug like that can crash the site…it won’t be because of something that you did.

    And if you want…feel free to go over and go nutz in the comments at my site so you can prove to yourself that it works.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  41. EW1, your site is buggy too … 😉

    JD (5b4781)

  42. 44 JD:

    EW1, your site is buggy too …

    Nah, you just have to spend a few minutes in “spam jail” until Akismet learns to love you!

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  43. I figured out what I was doing wrong. I do not understand why, but I think I got it …

    Beldar’s Place

    JD (5b4781)

  44. I put in the http:// inside the quotation marks, rather than just http://www.beldar. and for whatever mystical reason, that got rid of the text that directed the link back to the site where I was attempting to insert the link.

    JD (5b4781)

  45. 46…Well, I could be mistaken…

    You seem to have tracked something in on your shoes…

    In fact, Icy Truth and somebody else recently pointed out that I had been the victim of some low level hack … so I need to check and see if that’s the case again.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  46. It was not your site, nor Patterico’s. When I include the http:/ part, inside the quotation marks, rather than just trying the wwww. destination, it magically works. I am not going to argue with success.

    EW1’s place

    JD (5b4781)

  47. 47 JD:

    I put in the…

    Not quite sure I follow…

    But the front tag should look like:

    <a href=”http://target.org”>

    Is that what you had?

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)

  48. I did not have the http-colon// portion in there, before the www. Do not ask me why. I do not know. When I inserted that, all is fixed.

    JD (5b4781)

  49. Good night, all.

    JD (5b4781)

  50. Okay, I got it. Yes, everything after the equal sign has to be in the quotation marks.

    The reason for that is that the “http://” part specifies what language is used to talk to the target; and it isn’t always “http://.” Another that you might see frequently is “ftp://”

    Sorry I had you going there.

    EW1(SG) (9a80bf)


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