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Skip to comments.The Fall of Barack Obama
Posted on 03/01/2010 4:27:44 PM PST by safetysign
In a January 20, 2010 editorial, the Editor in Chief of U.S. News & World Report, Mortimer Zuckerman, had this to say: Obamas ability to connect with voters is what launched him. But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect with the voters since hes been in office. Hes had so much overexposure. You have to be selective. He was doing five Sunday shows. How many press conferences? And now people stop listening to him... Hes lost his audience. He has not rallied public opinion. He has plunged in the polls more than any other public figure since weve been using polls. Hes done everything wrong. Well, not everything, but the major things... I dont consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster. And thats what his friends are saying about him.
As the boy president occupied the White House on January 20, 2009 it was predictable that his presidency would last a year, at most, because the things he promised and the things he stood for were so uniquely un-American. Looking back over his year in office, any reasonably precocious fourth grader could make a cogent argument in opposition to nearly everything hes done. In fact, his policies have been so extreme and so far outside the mainstream that he was destined to achieve the most spectacular fall from grace of any American president in history. It was easy to see him serving out the final three years of his term as a virtual exile in the White House... afraid to venture out among any but the most rabid partisans.
Seeing his most ambitious initiative, healthcare reform, die in the flames of the Massachusetts Massacre, Obama made a hastily-planned sortie to Ohio for yet another Bush-bashing, self-aggrandizing stump speech on job creation. It was vintage Obama... full of left wing hyperbole and planted questions from the Kool-Ade drinkers in the hand-picked audience... but there were just two things wrong with it: 1) Almost everything he said was either wrong or an outright lie, and 2) He is so overexposed that no one in the television audience really wanted to see him.
Obama Kool-Ade drinkers in the media, and elsewhere, like to describe Obama as a very bright man, a true intellectual (compared to George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, of course). If that is the case, why has he demonstrated such a great inability to learn from his failures? The strident words and the in-your-face attitude of his Ohio speech were proof that he has totally misread the meaning of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. Whatever hopes and dreams he had for his time in the White House, whatever grandiose plans he had for transforming the United States from a constitutional republic with a free market economy into a socialist dictatorship with a centrally planned economy, were all lost on Tuesday, January 19, 2010... one day short of a full year in office. Yet, he appears to have learned nothing from the experience.
Comedian George Gobel once asked, rhetorically, Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes? In the context of 21st century American politics, and assuming that he has any capacity at all for honest self-examination, Obama must be feeling today very much like a pair of brown shoes at a black tie soiree.
When a politically naïve and totally inexperienced young black man, with a glib tongue and an exceptional ability to read words convincingly from a teleprompter, announced that he was ready to serve as President of the United States, liberals and Democrats saw it as a perfect opportunity to expiate whatever white guilt they may have felt... which was apparently considerable among those on the political left. It didnt seem to bother them that, as one pundit has remarked, every time he walks into a room he is the least experienced and the least qualified man in the room.
Nevertheless, his friends in the worldwide socialist movement and the international banking community figured out how to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal campaign funds into the country, the black community rallied to his banner, and American liberals and the mainstream media jumped on board the bandwagon. Together, they made it happen for him. But now, just one year later, Obama appears destined to become the unhappiest man in American politics... unhappier than even former Senator John Edwards, who runs a close second, and former president Bill Clinton.
Clinton will be the third unhappiest man because, after capturing the big prize, he frittered away whatever chance he had of ever being compared favorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of the 20th centurys greatest Democratic presidents. Not only was he a politician of unusual skill and insight, he was widely known as a policy wonk among policy wonks and he had the drive and the personal charm to be loved and respected around the world. Unfortunately, he was never able to put the public trust at the top of his priority list. Instead, he surrounded himself with a large cadre of trusted enablers who allowed him to conduct himself as if he were, not the President of the United States, but the class stud on an extended spring break in Acapulco.
Now that hes been out of office for nearly a decade and hes married to the current Secretary of State, he spends his days trying to find something useful to do without calling an undue amount of attention to himself. Having lied so shamelessly to the American people, having perjured himself in a court of law, having turned the Oval Office into a sexual playpen, and having suffered the humiliation of impeachment, hes smart enough to know that he has little reputation left to protect. So in order to protect whatever legacy remains, he walks a tightrope every day... and he has many more years to walk it without falling off.
Former Senator John Edwards is destined to be the second unhappiest man in American politics because he will be known forever as the most thoroughly despised scumbag in the political arena. A trial lawyer, Edwards amassed a $60 million fortune by winning large jury awards against doctors, hospitals, and corporations. His specialty was cases in which children were born with cerebral palsy, which he blamed on doctors who had waited too long to perform C-sections, a claim that doctors and medical researchers have described as junk science.
Then, like Obama, he decided that his experience in the courtroom, his glib tongue, and his one term in the U.S. Senate qualified him to be President of the United States. He entered the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, raising an incredible amount of money for a newcomer to elective office... most of it raised illegally by bundlers in plaintiffs law firms across the country. He was unsuccessful in his quest for the Democratic nomination but was selected by his Senate colleague, John Kerry, as his running mate.
Two years later, in 2006, Edwards met a young blonde film producer, Rielle Hunter, and embarked on a love affair with her. On February 27, 2008, Hunter gave birth to a daughter, for whom Edwards has consistently denied paternity... until now.
Taking into account that all of this was happening while his wife was waging a long battle with breast cancer, Edwards now has the well-deserved reputation of being the sleaziest of the sleazy. He is so universally despised that, if he is on the lookout for a friend, he might as well resign himself to getting a dog... or moving in with O.J. Simpson. Terry Moran, host of ABCs This Week, put it all in perspective. He said, Whats interesting to note is that Edwards latest admission (that he is the father of Hunters child) came while he was in Haiti. As if the people of that sad place didnt have enough problems.
Clearly, the one thing Clinton and Edwards share that places them near the top of our list is their sexual peccadilloes, a shortcoming that Obama does not appear to share with them... at least from what we know so far. What we do know about Obama is that, since his teen years, he has been mentored by, gravitated toward, and surrounded by the most dangerous sort of America-hating socialists, communists, and Marxists... from Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, and countless radical left college professors.
What destines Obama for the top spot on the list of unhappiest American politicians... aside from the failure of his economic recovery program, the failure of his radical cap-and-trade proposal, his failed attempt to give labor bosses unprecedented power to intimidate blue collar workers, and his ill-fated attempt at healthcare reform... is the fact that he carries on his shoulders the hopes and aspirations of every black child in America. It is unfortunate that, because he is so far outside the American mainstream, and because he carries so much hatred in his heart for the country he seeks to lead, his failures will be viewed by generations of black children, not as the failure of a black socialist attempting to bring down a constitutional republic, but simply as the failure of a black man.
A man can fail in the eyes of his countrymen and still be dearly loved by those closest to him. But in Obamas case, his wife and his two daughters will be there to suffer every agonizing step of his fall along with him. And for the rest of his life, each time he looks into their eyes, and into the eyes of black people everywhere, he will see the crushing disappointment that his ill-fated attempt at national transformation has caused them.
He will be the countrys unhappiest man, living the rest of his life knowing that his daughters know that the whole world sees him as a failure. He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history.
A natural-born LIAR!
This is my favorite line in the story:
every time he walks into a room he is the least experienced and the least qualified man in the room.
It would be funny if it wasn't so true.
"It didnt seem to bother them that, as one pundit has remarked, every time he walks into a room he is the least experienced and the least qualified man in the room.
Well, at least now people are waking up to what we've been screaming about. Small comfort.
I have been thinking about it, and how Ted Kennedy got obama going. I think Obama was chosen for election BECAUSE he was so inexperienced - in other words, the election of a weak president was engineered by powerful Dems in congress. Even his SOS is a Congresswoman.
It's like the Dem congress has really taken over the country, and nobody realizes it.
Can't come soon enough.
Jimma' was never shown picking his nose during government business.
He showed more self respect.
Oooh, that's good.
The useful idiots are no longer needed.
Isaiah 14:12-15
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
America will vomit out this toxic turkey soon enough, even if it requires a God-administered mega-dose of syrup of ipecac.
And to think that he has access to state secrets and nuclear weapons.
Problem with Obama's fall: The line of succession to Biden then Pelosi spells prolonged agony as they are dumb and dumber.
Oh give me a break, Zuckerman. You know perfectly well Obama was pandering to a select audience and most everything was set up or staged. Of course, there was the ACORN cheating.
every time he walks into a room he is the least experienced and the least qualified man in the room.
Lord help us all! I didn't even think of that angle. It is a frightening thought.
Thanks Safetysign. Excellent piece.
I shall refrain from speaking my compete opinion lest I be banned from here, but suffice to say that he's a very vile, despicable and dishonest man.
I think this is a completely unreasonable and dangerous assumption to make. It's what makes Barack Obama the perfect stooge for such a time as this. His fragile ego makes honest self-evaluation impossible. Completely impossible.
"He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history."
King obuma has moved into the whitehouse bunker. I'd say king obuma stands a good chance of beating the duration of Hitler's bunker vacation. Let's give him some imaginary ACORN divisions to move around a map, a dog, move Heinrich Holder into the bunker - maybe we don't need the dog - and see what happens.
The author brings us the following conclusion: ObaMao has no capacity at all for self-examination.
ObaMao is the quintessential narcissist; an arrogant adolescent who, though in his 40s, is stuck in 7th grade.
This is the best article I have read about Obama's failure. It puts his failures in comparison with two other spectacular failures before him. In my opinion this article is spot on. I feel bad for his children.
Wow! Thank you for this article. This states it better than anything I've seen to date. Excellent!
A true flash in the presidental pan!
"He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history."
He's also evil.
What a punk!
The Manchildian Candidate!
But there is something good to said in all this.
Many people who voted for Obama - and I'd put a majority of the non-black voters in this category - wanted to vote for Obama because it proved they weren't racist, or they could brag that they elected a black guy as president.
We're at a wonderful point in race relations. Finally, we can stand up and say that a man of African descent can be as big a fool, moron, and wastecase as any white guy anywhere else. (At least a guy of one-quarter African descent.... LOL) In any case, Obama is going to help those of us who like to carefully pick words and tiptoe around black people for fear of being called a racist, pick us up by our labels, and hear us shout, "You, sir, are an incompetent on par with James Buchanan and Jimmy Carter," and feel no remorse whatsoever.
You want equality? Obama, you're a schmuck like the schmucks of any race, ethicity, heritage, and nationality anywhere else on Earth. It's not the equality you wanted, granted. But you've earned it.
I mean "lapels." And "something good to be said in all this." I need to spellcheck more often. LOL
Pretty decent point. I think it's well to remember that the Federalist papers showed an enormous amount of distrust for a abusive legislature.
"He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history."
"The line of succession to Biden then Pelosi..."
Biden is dumb, but manageable. Pelosi is not dumb, she is evil. Stop the succession with Biden.
"Speedily, and in our day"..
"He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history."
Only in the age of AA can 0bama be considered smart.
Well if it's any consolation to them, President Dingleberry's as white as he is black.
The "one pundit" who made that remark was Rush. If he wasn't the originator, he didn't attribute it either, LOL!
Good one. I'm stealing it.
More like Obama is feeling like he's the only one in the black tie, and all the others are wearing bib overalls.
Yeah. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being picked up by my labels.
...and 52% were deluded in to voting for The Fool On The Hill...
For whatever it's worth around here, I remain convinced until this day that -Komrade ZerØ--
Was never intended to be elected in 2008-- it was supposed to be a dry run to introduce him, and give their side time to sanitize his background and prepare the public for his "descent from Heaven"--
Unfortunately for all of us, a lethal confluence of Media Hive enablers, white guilt, and black racism propelled this fool
far beyond his "level of incompetence..."
I also still believe Duh!1®, was "selected" by an unhappy confluence of "Mo Money" than the unfortunate Cap'n Queeg, the shadily-orchestrated meltdown of "The Economy" ( which still seems to be staggering along despite it all ) and the Ophra-ization of the masses. Aided and abetted by the dumbing down caused by Public Miseducation and too much Popular Culture, which is a cesspool of reaction shots, bumper-sticker slogans, and tits, and teeth, and asses. Literally, and figuratively...
American Idol and Survivor, writ large and smarmy...
Basically, Obama was "Marketed Better"- like soft drinks are...
...but still, he's just an empty suit:
for all those
Drinkers out there in TV land... "you gotta fall down, an' worship De Idol"--
( Old Negro Spiritual, "Shadrack, Neshack, Abendnego" )
If we aren't all rounded up and re-educated at
it should provide endless opportunities to hector, and catcall, and kibitz from the sidelines.
I hope all the MoonBats really, really, really enjoy having The New Little Big Fraud© at the helm. It's going to be quite a ride...
This guy really is Bad News.
And Then! There are his gullible, self-deluded camp followers:
Preview of Anti-Obama Documentary Outrages Left
John Ziegler didnt know the kind of fury the left would unleash on him when he unveiled his web video How Obama Got Elected.
See his website and video here.
The Zogby results were incredible and they were credible and the vast majority of enws media ignored it because it was their own malfeasance that created a massive amount of ignorance,
See poll results here.
As I have mentioned here:
OBAMAO ... is America ready for a Marxist president?[ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
Nope, but we are about to get one, good and hard...
...so chroniclers like Yours Truly will be documenting every move he makes, every breath he takes... unless, or until, we are silenced by all that "tolerance & inclusiveness" he & his followers are already practicing.... ( "we in charge now" )
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
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The one pundit who made that remark was Rush. If he wasnt the originator, he didnt attribute it either, LOL!
Once I got past all the hot air, I realized Rush was a wise man!
Brutal article.
The kind that makes liberals want to duct tape their heads so their head don't explode
Well the truth will hurt
Thanks for the ping.
I am saving this one.
Of course healthcare has not yet failed and I'm scared.
"May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership."
A column to keep!
Racist!!! /s
Too long to be my new tagline, but I'd love to see someone quote it to obama.
What a great read!
A most insightful piece- am sending it around!
Me too! It's the best I've read.
And the media, including Fox News carefully avoiding addressing ANY of these points during the campaign. Nor did they address Odumbo's lack of experience.
Which is one reason among others, that I watch none of it, including Fox.
All the more reason to work to take the house back in Nov....How about President Pence?
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19 posts tagged with background and check.
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Background Check Inconsistencies
I am currently undergoing a fairly extensive background check in order to work at a financial institution. It's been Kafkaesque. The background check company found some major inconsistencies in my reported employment dates, but the thing is -- I know (and can prove) that it's my former employers who have the dates wrong. The company doing the background check has refused to accept my documentation (W2s, contact info for supervisors who can confirm the dates, etc.). Should I pro-actively contact my potential employer to explain, or wait for them to contact me? [more inside]
Help Me Find this Online Service (if it still exists)
Quite a few years ago, I recall ordering a sort-of "background check" online, only it didn't just have the usual criminal background, legal stuff, etc.--it also had details about the way the person looked, their interactions with their family, personality tendencies and such. It was a little spooky, actually, all the personal details it included. [more inside]
Marriage on your permanent record
Does a previous marriage show up on a background check? [more inside]
Background Checks
What shows up on a Kroll background check? [more inside]
How does one get an apostille for a background check?
A friend asked me for help getting an apostille of her daughter's background check for a job in Korea- I haven't a clue where to start, but I've included her question inside. [more inside]
Does Getting Fired 20 years ago show up in a background check?
I was fired from a retail job back in 1994. I worked there 6 months. The firing could have been argued but I left. I have a job interview tomorrow requiring a background check. I don't want to lie but I don't want to tell the truth as it is so damn long ago and a ridiculous thing....and that job is long long long gone from resume replaced with great work and academic history. Does a routine background check dig up that old dirt? Thanks for your time and have a good week.
Nanny is as nanny does
Suggestions for nanny background check websites? [more inside]
Background check question.
Offered a professional level job at PG&E. I would be driving a company car, but not all the time - desk job with field duty. On the online application I indicated that I do not have any criminal convictions (i.e. felonies, misdemeanors, etc.) For fear of not getting an interview at all, I replied in the negative. However, I have one misdemeanor DUI from almost seven years ago. They will be performing a background check. I know they really want me - they offered me the job within a day of interviewing. Does the background check go back this far? Am I screwed or will I have the opportunity to explain myself if it comes up? HR has not gotten to me to do the check yet. What, if anything, should I do?
Is this the end of my fiance's driving career?
Will a suspended driver's license with extenuating circumstances disqualify my fiance for a position that requires him to drive a company car? [more inside]
Info on the foreign service background check.
How in depth does the Foreign Service background check go? [more inside]
Somebody stole my identity to live in an apartment for 4 months?
So my name's been evicted from an apartment I've never lived in. And yet nothing appears on my credit report. What do I do? [more inside]
What can an employment background check entail?
What can an employment background check entail? [more inside]
Background Cheque Republic
I'm applying for a position at my school that is mine contingent on passing a background check/"live scan" screening by the University's Police department. Therein lies my conundrum... [more inside]
What is the best website to conduct a fast background check for a potential tenant?
What is the best website to conduct a fast background check for a potential tenant?
Spill the beans or clam up?
Do I have to divulge stuff that isn't on my record? [more inside]
What's the best site to conduct background checks?
What's the best website to research someone's background? [more inside]
[HR / background checks] What exactly is a "10-year background check" (for the US feds)?
[HR / background checks] What exactly is a "10-year background check" (for the US feds)? [more inside]
My mind says fraud, but that can't be right.
Legally, what would you call refusal to adhere to city/government by-laws to fingerprint or background check volunteer workers? I imagine it's a fairly serious crime. Location in Canada preferably, but US examples welcome. [more inside]
Background check: deal breaker?
Employment history filter: I am starting a new job after about a year of intermittent contract work padded between various stages of unemployment. Though I never lied about anything, they might uncover that my past year has in fact been really spotty in terms of work (during interviews, we talked about my contract projects, but they didn't ask about specific dates or durations). Does this make me screwed? [more inside]
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"Hickey's language is sensual, lush, and unhurried...[an] expressively written debut."
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"[R]ichly atmospheric and haunting."
Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light
"A graceful imagining."
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Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria—and the subject of Helen Mirren's latest film, Woman in Gold—takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The/i>
Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria—and the subject of Helen Mirren's latest film, Woman in Gold—takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath.
Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It is here where the twelve-year-old Emilie meets the controversial libertine and painter. Hired by her bourgeois father for basic drawing lessons, Klimt introduces Emilie to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and inspires her. The Painted Kiss follows Emilie as she blossoms from a naïve young girl to one of Europe's most exclusive couturiers—and Klimt's most beloved model and mistress. A provocative love story that brings to life Vienna's cultural milieu, The Painted Kiss is as compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
The New York Times
"Hickey's language is sensual, lush, and unhurried...[an] expressively written debut."
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"[R]ichly atmospheric and haunting."
Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light
"A graceful imagining."
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Chapter One
Kammer am Attersee
October 21, 1944
When I left Vienna, I took one thing: a thick leather portfolio with a silver buckle. I departed quickly and had to leave many things behind. A rosewood cabinet Koloman Moser made for me. Twelve place settings of Wiener Werkstätte silver, designed by Hoffmann. My costume collection. One of Fortuny's famous Delphos gowns. A pale yellow bias-cut satin gown by Madame Vionnet. Paul Poiret's sapphire blue harem pants and jeweled slippers. And the paintings. The most precious of all, they were too large and unwieldy to be taken on the train. And once I realized that the paintings could not travel, bringing yards of fabric, or a hatpin, or newspaper clippings and fashion magazines seemed ridiculous. What was I going to do, make a shrine of the remnants of my old life while the bolts of it sat in the closet of an abandoned apartment?
My niece Helene made the lists of things we'd need and packed up suitcases and went shopping for twine and woolen stockings and camphor liniment. I told myself that she needed to keep busy, that I was doing her a favor by letting her get everything ready, but that was just a lie I invented, an excuse for my empty-eyed catatonia. I couldn't have helped her because if I did I would have had to admit that we were actually going.
I stepped on the train as if I were going across town to deliver the portfolio to a gallery, and this second lie was the only thing that kept me from throwing myself onto the tracks. I was afraid I would die without seeing the city again.
"Since when are you so histrionic?" my niece said. She's my sister Helene's child, and her namesake, but sometimes she reminds me more of my other sister, the practical one, Pauline. "You're getting to be like Grandmama," she said. "We're not going far, and for all we know the war will be over in six months." She handed me a hard roll with a thick slab of butter in the middle.
The train was packed with sweaty children wearing coats on top of jackets on top of sweaters and women carrying lumpy bundles of teakettles and soup pots and knives wrapped in linens. The women were thin and grim, their faces gray. Though their outer layer of clothing was presumably their best, nearly all of the skirts were stained and frayed, and the children's jackets were patched with scraps that did not match and coarse dark thread that only accentuated their pitiable condition.
We rolled slowly through the city, past the suburbs and the outlying towns, stopping frequently to load more and more of these families onto the train. Each time I thought the train could hold no more, but then at each station I saw the crowd and knew that we would make room for them. They piled onto the luggage racks; they stacked like bowls on each other's laps.
We passed barren hills where grapes once grew. We passed muddy fields where hundreds of people camped, cobbling together whatever shelter they could from pieces of tin and newspaper. We passed the Army barracks. Trucks full of soldiers crowded the roads.
I gave my roll to a chap-cheeked child on the floor next to me. She put the whole thing in her mouth and seemed to swallow it without chewing. Her mother's fervent gratitude shamed me.
Five hours later our train arrived at our station, two stops east of Salzburg, and deposited us in our exile. I can't pretend that we are here for the summer: the clouds are gunmetal gray and the lake is icy cold. The birches are naked and shivering. Up in the mountains it is snowing.
I have been lonely for my things. I have so much time on my hands.
I keep the leather case inside a Biedermeier cabinet in my bedroom. My father loved Biedermeier the way he loved a well-made pipe. It stands there, so crafted and finished and correct, a reproach for all that I'm not.
Sometimes in the afternoons, when the path to the lake is too muddy even for me and the thunder rolls through the valley like mortar shells, or perhaps it's the mortar shells rolling through the valley like thunder, I can't really tell them apart, I take the portfolio out of the cabinet and lay it on the bed. The thick hide is scuffed and scraped and smells of the fiacres that used to line up beside St. Stephen's. It looks out of place on the lacy eiderdown that's been mine since I was a little girl. I look at it for a minute, run my hand over it as if it were a doe I've killed, then I undo the buckle and upend the case so that all of the drawings inside fall onto the bed. One hundred and twelve of them, to be precise. I sit there on the bed next to the pile and pick them up sheet by sheet. I make smaller piles, subsets, arranging them according to pose, model, date. I grade them on how much I like them and put my favorites on top.
All of them are different: some of them are drawn with charcoal and some with graphite pencil and some with colorful oil crayons. Some are the size of my palm and others are folded many times to fit inside the leather case. Some are on thick heavy paper with a nubby finish, while others are on thin slick paper that slides through my fingers and onto the floor. Some of the drawings are already dull and brittle and break in my hands like rotted lace.
Yet they are all the same, too, because they are all of women in various stages of undress. They are quick, casual, a few lines, without contour or shading, tossed off in a minute or two. Weightless women, empty, like figures in a child's coloring book. Here is a woman astride the arm of a divan, twisting her torso in a languorous stretch. Here is a woman wearing a high-collared dress and boots, reaching underneath layers of petticoats to touch herself through a gaping hole in her knickers. Here is another, a woman with a direct gaze wearing garters and stockings and a blouse. Here is a drawing of a woman lying on her back with her legs thrown to the side, her buttocks dominating the page as her foreshortened shoulders and head barely register as a mark.
I know all of their names, these women. There is Alma, and Maria, and Mizzi, and Adele. Some of them I knew well and some of them I passed coming in and out of the studio and some of them I never saw, but I have thought of them and heard of them so much through the years that I feel intimate with each one of them. I know their lives.
When I said the drawings were all the same, I wasn't being strictly accurate. One is different. This one is of a man embracing a woman, who turns her face toward the viewer with an expression of simple bliss. I keep that one at the bottom because it hurts too much to look at it.
This was all I could bring from Vienna, Gustav's drawings. He never thought much of them or took them seriously as art, they were preparatory, exploratory, they were plans, blueprints, mistakes. But now they may be the only things of his to survive, and I must curate them for lack of something more important or finished. I must scrutinize them and draw parallels between them and place them in a historical context for someone, someone in the future who might be interested. In the meantime they are mine, and I am alone with them, and I look at them to keep them alive.
I find my way to the bureau by touch and I light the oil lamp. I walk over to the dressing table and sit before the mirror. My hair is white but still thick and wavy. My features are not as sharp as they once were. An artist would overlook some folds in my chin and neck so as not to hurt my feelings. But my eyes are as piercing as they were when I was twelve. I pull the combs out of my hair, ivory combs that were once my mother's, that my father bought her in Venice, and let it fall to my shoulders. Crone hair, Helene calls it. She thinks that women of a certain age should crop their hair very close, like Gertrude Stein. She tells me this as she plays with her dark fat braid, touched with the faintest frost. I think when she is seventy she will feel differently, but I just tell her that when I am dead she can do with me what she likes.
The bristles of my silver-backed brush are yellowed and soft with age and their shallow nudging has no effect whatsoever on my hair and its tangles. I reach into the drawer and pull out a pair of scissors.
I could gouge my thigh cutting a hole in my modest underthings. The skin of my thigh is tissue-thin. It wouldn't take much to finish me off, a little puncture wound that gets infected, a little blood poisoning. Or I could slice the cotton fabric like I was opening a box. The cutout would fall to the floor like a paper snowflake. I could move back to the bed and open my legs, pulling the skirt of my dress over my hips. I could put my hand in the hole I've cut and rub my fingers up and down. I could arrange myself into the poses in the portfolio. If I did, perhaps Gustav would appear, in the red caftan I made for him, looking like John the Baptist. I would model for him in a way I never did in life, and he would draw me the way he drew the others.
But I don't do any of those things and Gustav doesn't appear. Instead I put the scissors back in the drawer, blow out the lamp, and crawl into bed. Perhaps in sleep I can return to Vienna, to the studio. Perhaps in dreams the drawings next to the bed will become more than dull scraps of paper.
Reclining Nude, 1888
It is a very cold afternoon in the studio, but the transoms must be cranked open to keep the turpentine and other chemicals from poisoning the air. Gerta, with bones as light as straw and pale flesh like paraffin, stands with her wrists crossed in front of her breasts, waiting for instructions.
Gustav doesn't see her nakedness. She hardly registers as a woman to him. He sees a taxing problem of light and dark, of geometry, of volume.
"Could you cup your breast? The left, not the right. Good. Now could you lie down on the pallet? Open your legs. Turn that knee inward. All right."
Gerta does these things without comment, with the patient boredom of women who make money from their bodies. He draws her over and over, knuckles and knees, elbows and stomach. She does two-minute poses and thirty-minute poses. Gustav turns the pages on his drawing pad again and again.
It is early afternoon but it is already twilight and he works feverishly to beat the encroaching darkness. When he can work no more he tells her enough. Her flesh is goose-pimpled and sickly pale, he notices. The flesh under her toenails is purple. She has become a woman again, more than a visual exercise and also somehow less. He climbs the ladder and closes the transoms. She pulls on her chemise, her stockings. She buttons her dress and ties her boots. It all seems like such a wasted effort to him.
Would you like to stay? he asks. She nods.
There is a bed in the corner and he leads her over to it. While he undresses she waits, her head propped on one narrow hand. He sits on the bed next to her and unbuttons and unfastens and unties until she is naked again. Then he draws his palm across her skin as if his hand were a brush.
Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Hickey
Elizabeth Hickey is the author of The Painted Kiss. She earned an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and son.
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New author Elizabeth Hickey makes an auspicious debut with a novel based on the life of the Viennese fin-de-siècle painter Gustav Klimt as told through the eyes and memories of fashion artist Emilie Flöge. A big chunk of history from which to sift a novel - the time of such greats as Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, Egon Schiele, Oscar Kokoschka, Arnold Schönberg, Wittgenstein, etc, etc - Hickey freely admits 'The aim of historical fiction is not to render the past exactly as it happened - an impossible task - but to imagine it as it might have been', and in so stating she covers her bases for any quibbles that might arise from her readers whose depth of knowledge in art history, music history, and indeed the entire Secessionist Movement might have. Higgins has created a very readable story based on fact, and the result is a work by a writer of great promise.Emilie Flöge is introduced as a young girl, a people watcher from her middle class Viennese home, a girl who disdains the thought of pursing a career as a secretary or other 'sensible' occupation but at the same time is unsure where she wants her life to go: 'I'm the one who is always wishing for something else, something I can't have, something there's no point in missing.' The time is the infamous fin-de-siècle and Emilie is gradually introduced to a youngish painter Gustav Klimt who accepts her as a student of drawing. Klimt is a lothario, mixing his long hours before his exotic canvases with affairs with his low-class models, with any woman who will consent, and with wealthy women such as Alma Schindler and Adele Bloch-Bauer.Klimt is drawn to Emilie's unique personality and begins a long 'affaire de coeur' while encouraging Emilie to follow her own dream of becoming a fashion designer. The Secessionist Movement is Klimt's brainchild and part of this new thinking in art includes new looks in fashion, a portion of the movement Emilie directs with her sister Helen known as Schwestern Flöge. Art shows are held and emphasize Klimt's work and their careers surge. The Vienna of the Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbles with WW I and with that demise much of the artistic life of Vienna falls, too. Klimt eventually paints Emilie and creates 'The Kiss' which was intended to have Emilie and Gustav as models, but in a last moment of wanting to preserve Emilie's reputation he alters. Klimt's health fails and he dies. WW II soon thunders over Vienna and Emilie and her sister flee to their old summer refuge Kammer am Attersee: Emilie's only remnants of her involvement with Klimt and indeed her presence in the Secessionist Movement are treasured drawings including the original drawing for 'The Kiss'.A lot of territory to cover in a novel, this, but Elizabeth Hickey keeps it terse and well propelled, making all of the omissions of the times excusable. There are moments when she dwells too long on inconsequential information about sewing and cloth and the sorts of things only a seamstress would care to know, but when she focuses on painting descriptions she excels: many of the more important paintings by Klimt are set apart from the flow of the novel by a page or two of italicized information about the model of that work and the process involved. She does manage to bring into her narrative bits of information about Gustav Mahler and Egon Schiele that could have benefited by expansion. But these are all hindsight thoughts after reading what is essentially a fine first novel by a well-informed, fluid author. And for once the cover jacket of the book is an elegant full-color reproduction of a painting by Klimt, complete with the sense of gold leaf and patterned fantasy that begs the reader to open the book! Grady Harp
In 1944 Vienna, septuagenarian Emilie Floge fears the Nazis either absconding with or viciously destroying her most prized possessions. Willing to risk her life to see they are safe, she flees Vienna with the only things she thought important in her life, a portfolio filled with the drawings of her beloved Gustav Klimt. On the trek to her Austrian countryside hideaway, Emilie reflects back to when she was a teenager and first met her Gustav in 1886 Vienna. Her father hired the near starving artist to provide her with some rudimentary drawing lessons. .Over time they became lovers inspiring each other to greater heights though he also was a womanizer. She became a renowned designer while his paintings became popular. He turned to her for inspiration as she was his motivating muse for his most reflective work, The Kiss. This is a well written biographical fiction starring two intriguing individuals who¿s on and off love affair enhanced their artistic endeavors. The story line is loaded with historical insight especially Vienna in 1944 and the late nineteenth century; this makes for an interesting comparative analysis. Though the book is too crammed with sidebar details that never fully get integrated into the prime story line, fans of novelizations of real life persona will take much delight with what inspired the renowned PAINTED KISS................ Harriet Klausner
Beautifully written historical fiction. Hickey fashions a believable connection between these real life characters and their internal motivations behind the history that we have. I found that I wanted to read passages aloud -- which is high praise! Hickey particularly captures how the pretense of Vienna society at the turn of the century covers a multitude of sins. I also loved how she detailed a relationship that is very difficult to categorize. Were they friends, lovers, co-workers? Yes. Yes.
Three and a half stars. As historical fiction goes, this book started very well, very promising but, by mid-read, it became rather conventional. Still it is a very readable story. Besides, to write about Gustav Klimt is not easy. The relationship between this artist and Emilie Flöge requires many more pages and lots of speculation. Get this book if you want something light and easy to read.
I was curious about the painting. I learned a great deal about artists and the people in the artistic community. I learned the truth about the price for painting what you 'think' the public wants to see. 'Different strokes (literally) for different folks.'


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RELAX: FOR all his headline-grabbing talk about skinning and cooking dogs, Jonathan Safran Foer doesn't want to challenge your values or change your mind about animals. He does want to persuade you to stop eating factory-farmed meat - not because it's against his beliefs, but because it's against yours.
That's the argument Foer, the author of "Everything is Illuminated" (as well as "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), develops in his new book, "Eating Animals" (Little, Brown and Co., $25.99), which he'll read and discuss at the Central Branch of the Free Library tonight. His "modest proposal" about dogs (including a recipe!) is a way of showing that we already know animals are individuals - we treat pets as persons, as members of our family - and he wants to make clear how thoroughly their lives are violated by factory farming.


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WASHINGTON - President Bush is slated to give Republican Rep. Heather Wilson some fundraising help next month in her bid for a sixth term representing the Albuquerque-area 1st Congressional District.
According to an invitation from Wilson's campaign, obtained by The Associated Press, Bush is expected to appear at 4 p.m. June 16 at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque. The invitation advertises a photo opportunity at 3:30 p.m., just before a reception.
Wilson's campaign spokeswoman Heather Wade could not comment on the invitation. White House spokesman Blair Jones said the president's schedule for that week has not yet been announced.
Wilson is in the midst of one of her toughest campaigns in her swing district. She faces Democratic state Attorney General Patricia Madrid in the November general election; neither has an opponent in next month's primary.
Wilson has touted herself as an independent Republican, who occasionally bucks her party.
But Democrats pounced on the announcement that Bush would visit to criticize Wilson as a "rubber stamp" for the administration.
People "don't want a member of Congress who's going to be a simple 'yes' for the administration," said Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Wilson and Madrid have kept neck-and-neck in fundraising since Madrid got in the race, though the most recent campaign finance reports showed Wilson took the edge in the last month.
In pre-primary reports due Thursday with the Federal Election Commission, Wilson reported she had received a total of $2.3 million, taking in $319,000 in the period between April 1 and May 17.
She has $1.6 million on hand.
Madrid filed her report a day late, due to a "staff oversight," campaign spokeswoman Heather Brewer said Friday.
Madrid reported receiving $191,000 in the most recent period. She has raised $1.3 million overall and has $858,000 on hand.
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The Midnight Garden design is not available on a Pandigital Star 7-inch Media Tablet Skin yet but we will customize one for you when you order this custom product.
Midnight Garden Pandigital Star 7" Media Tablet Skin
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Skins are premium quality decals that feature stunning, high-resolution graphics printed on premium grade adhesive-backed cast vinyl.
Skins provide low profile protection with no bulk and protects your Pandigital Star 7-inch R70B200 Media Tablet from scratches. The unique weaved adhesive allows for fast, easy and accurate application, and goo-free removal.
Make your Pandigital Star 7-inch R70B200 Media Tablet uniquely yours.
The Matte finish is a non-glossy, satin-type finish that give Skins an arty look and feel (art pieces, professional photos, canvases are usually matte). It is fingerprint and smudge resistant, and looks gorgeous with most designs.
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Fast and Good Quality. I saw an TV ad for this company and decided to try it out. I brought a skin for my 3DS and it fits perfectly. I also love how you can choose the finish. I really like the quality of the material used. It also arrived very quickly. I will definitely be coming back here for more skins later in the future.Nakita Braganza, Northern Mariana Islands


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Product DescriptionOur 7" Sports Maracas are available in 3 different sport designs,Choose from Baseball, Basketball or Soccer. Sport maracas are packed in a poly bag of 1 dozen pieces per sport. Please order in increments of 1 bag, (12 pieces).
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Designer interviews are accompanied by 25 accessible how-to projects of her own design that teach many of the techniques used by the gallery artists.
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Just Add Color: Wildflowers includes 30 original designs from artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon. Each book contains 64 perforated pages to make it easy to share, frame and hang your artwork.
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Restaurateur Pandl's daughter back for seconds with family memoir
Julia Pandl learned a few things from her father, George, the late restaurateur: Don't drink or eat in front of the customers, and don't consume anything from a hotel room minibar - it's too expensive!
While taking pancake orders at the Sunday brunch at George Pandl's Restaurant in Bayside, she also absorbed a lesson that is helping her sell copies of her book today. »Read Full Article(3)
Sally Struthers brings experience, humor to 'Hello, Dolly!'
If the cheerful and idealistic Gloria Stivic had stayed with us during the decades since "All in the Family," what would the intervening years have made of her?
Having won two Emmys playing Meathead's wife, Sally Struthers is back with the answer: The increasingly confident Gloria would have become matchmaker Dolly Levi, rendered sharper and more pragmatic by life's knocks but still every bit as warm and loving, and even more of a stitch. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Symphony makes most of cathedral setting in concert
The phrase "working the room" clearly means different things to people.
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate music director Francesco Lecce-Chong moved their proverbial tent to the Cathedral of St. John on Friday evening and worked the room beautifully with a program of Pärt, Bach and Bruckner that was perfectly tailored to the acoustics and ambience of the space. »Read Full Article
Skaggs, Hornsby pair piano with frenetic fiddlin' around
From the carefully placed microphones to the stringed instruments in the hands of Ricky Skaggs and the six members of Kentucky Thunder, the stage of the Northern Lights Theater at Potawatomi Bingo Casino was clearly set Friday for an evening of bluegrass music.
Had that been the bill, it would have been a fine show of prodigious talent playing the music Skaggs has been mastering since his youth. But there in the middle of the stage was an unusual addition to bluegrass tradition: a grand piano and its own experimental master, Bruce Hornsby. »Read Full Article


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Interieur 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan, curator Lowie Vermeersch talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the programme of events for this year's Interieur Biennale, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October and feature projects from the likes of Ross Lovegrove, Troika and Jurgen Bey.
Dutch company Organisation in Design recently put out a call for entries to Ventura Interieur, a city-wide satellite program of shows in collaboration with the biennale - see more details here.
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