We quoted James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal in the previous post; one of his recurring leitmotifs goes something like this:
Great Orators of the Democratic Party
- “One man with courage makes a majority.”–Andrew Jackson
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”–Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The buck stops here.”–Harry S. Truman
- “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”–John F. Kennedy
And we can add a phrase uttered by President Obama in a speech today to the list of stirring moments in progressive oratory:
“There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!”
Come back President Bush and Vice President Quayle, all is forgiven.
Update: Mary Katharine Ham processes the line through the Obadecoder, and the answer suddenly becomes obvious: to paraphrase the title of Roger Simon’s recent video, it signals the opening salvo for Obama’s plot against the urologists.
Update: Gerard Vanderluen explores all the possible angles that this topic deserves: “I look for our watchdog media to get on the case and grill Robert Gibbs on the deeper meaning of ‘Gets all wee-weed up.’ I know they’d do it for George W. Bush and this president deserves no less.”
With the help of a look-the-other-way media, Obama’s persona during the campaign last year centered around an entirely-undeserved perception of cool. Coolness being one of the most brittle of affectations, it’s merely a matter of time before someone feigning it watches his bubble burst.
Saul would have it no other way, and this latest unforced error merely speeds the process up.
“There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!”
“Wee wee” means “urinate.” What does “we weed up” mean? Pissed off?
Think of the last lines of “This Little Piggy Went to Market”…
“There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!”
I have been saying for some time now that Barack Obama will probably not finish out his term. The odds are also that he is a marginalized president unable to ever again get serious legislation through Congress. He may even experience a nervous breakdown. Obama, in his heart of hearts, does not want to do the boring stuff required of the office. He wanted to be something of a national cheer leader. Are we ready for Joe Biden residing in the White House? I’m betting it will become reality in less than a year.
Well golly, Alfalfa! This being President stuff sure is hard work!
I have parsed this immortal praise to a fare-thee-well and even found a song to go with it.
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/culture_civilization/ah_the_great_orator_unlea.php
Pace Frank Zappa, the health care wee wee, I mean the health insurance wee wee, has blinded me, and I can’t see, temporarily…
I have no idea where the phrase “wee-weed up” came from. It’s not a Southronism as far as I know, either black or white. If I had to guess, I’d say it came from Obama’s cadre of Chicago friends/white radicals who like to use what they think if black street speech when they want to be “authentic”.
Obama himself, neither being of the black “street”, or “southern black” (or white, for that matter), uses language he heard somewhere. He thinks it makes him sound like one of the people.
Just another Fail.