I didn't see Marco & the water bottle.

[Jackpine Radical]

I listened to SOTU on the radio & then turned it off.

I don't give a fuck about Rubio & the water bottle.

It's nice, I guess, if he destroyed himself with the water bottle, but I'm kinda disgusted that this is the sort of event by which Presidential candidacies and elections are decided.

Really--WTF does it say about our culture, our wisdom, our capacity for self-rule that the water bottle incident has risen to such significance?

Although, truth to tell, I guess I didn't learn anything from this brouhaha that I didn't already know about our braindead society.

There will be no Zombie Apocalypse. There are no brains to feed them.

**End of Rant**

[scarletwoman]

1. "There will be no Zombie Apocalypse. There are no brains to feed them."

And that, dear friend, says it all.


sw

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Yes indeed, SW.

Present company excepted, of course;.

[Atman]

3. The fact that you think it was "about the water bottle" is telling

You clearly missed the point entirely. This was the guy just on the cover of Time as The Savior Of The Republican Party, and touted as being Reaganesque. Yet he gave a barely high school level speech arguing points the POTUS never made. And it wasn't just the already-famous lunge for the mini water bottle. He repeatedly scratched face or wiped his lips with his fingers. Yep, he's The Savior.

But since you admit to not seeing it, I guess we should all just defer to your incredible insight.

[emulatorloo]

6. Thanks for the great post. The water bottle was only the icing

on the fail cake.

[scarletwoman]

7. Why so hostile? I don't have TV, so I didn't see the Rubio speech, either.

But I have most certainly been following the DU threads about "Rubio and the water bottle" - and there have been a great many popping up.

I find all of it humorous - including your response to Jackpine's OP - why the hell not? Is any of this remotely related to our real lives? I think not.

[TwilightGardener]

4. It wasn't the water--it was the choke.

[msanthrope]

5. There are others with your concerns about discourse....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2363721


funny....whenever GD is laughing too hard....who shows up?

[scarletwoman]

8. Gosh, Jackpine! I guess your post annoyed some people.

Us non-TV watchers need to be more careful of what we criticize.

[Marrah_G]

9. It was REALLY fuuny though

[nashville_brook]

10. it was completely Nixonian. The sweating, the panic, the water bottle. It's the whole package,

not just the water.

People are talking about it as if it's a gaffe -- it wasn't. It was an implosion that lasted through the whole speech.