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How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.
-Henry Fonda in Sergio Leone's 1968 epic Once Upon A Time in the West
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During today's DNC pep rally for socialist healthcare, President Obama said:
I continue to support a public option. I think it's important. But it's just one component. Insurance reforms are also needed. Insurance reforms are the belt, the public option is the suspenders.
Not exactly the best use of metaphor. Who wears both a belt and suspenders?
One definition of a belt-and-suspenders man is "a man with something to hide."
Ah, now I get it.
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Dixie Pixie| 8.20.09 @ 6:08PM
The only character who could mangle a metaphor worse than President Obama is “Opus” in “Bloom County”. Opus did it for comic effect. Obama thinks the mangled metaphors are governmental policy.
Daisy| 8.20.09 @ 7:10PM
Obama's losing it, and I don't mean the health care debate.
ConservativeWanderer| 8.20.09 @ 7:16PM
Daisy, His Obamaness' problem is that this is probably the first time in his adult life that he's faced actual criticism for his policies!
In Chicago, he had the Daley Machine helping and protecting him, during the campaign the media wrapped him in bubble-wrap so nothing could touch him. Now, however, he's actually feeling the stings of criticism, and he has absolutely no idea how to respond.
If it wasn't so pathetic, it'd be hilarious.
Ran| 8.20.09 @ 8:48PM
...or a man with "not much" to hide.
Dixie Pixie| 8.20.09 @ 8:59PM
Obama ....a man with much to be humble about... .... and ignoring it.
Tailgunner| 8.20.09 @ 11:59PM
A man with a belt and suspenders just might be carrying a .45 automatic and two or three extra magazines.
Kinda heavy, those .45's...: D
iPod Touch Video Converter| 8.21.09 @ 1:54AM
I can trust.
Rocco| 8.21.09 @ 7:41AM
Tailgunner,
They can be, unless you have a Glock 21.... : D
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