Smug does not require the knowledge of what smug should be. And you can certainly be smug about your position in life, what you ate for dinner, just about anything you can think of, what color the gum stuck to your shoe is. In a surprisingly liberal statement, smug is relative.
Like any of you wouldn’t be just a little smug having achieved what he has. I’d be riding a giraffe down main street waving a bag of gophers in the air yelling “LOOK AT ME I’M SMUG!”.
Smug is just another word for uppity. It’s at best subconscious racism. Almost all politicians are smug… John McCain’s smug as hell, but no one seems to be bashing him over the head with it.
Name a presidential candidate from the last 40 years who wasn’t smug.
Years tortured in the Hanoi Hilton gives McCain the right to be smug if he so chooses, whereas half-white Obama’s affirmative action ride to Columbia University gives BHO none.
Actually, it’s Obama’s total lack of any executive experience that trouble me (as well as his socialist ideas). If he didn’t have his polished persona, and his dark skin, BHO wouldn’t be the DNC’s choice. To bad Colin Powell never ran for president.
BTW, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter were never known for being smug.
@gor
His years in the Hanoi Hilton give him the right to be honored, not smug. His smugness comes from having dumped his first wife (who had cancer at the time) to marry a disgustingly rich heiress who could finance all his overarching ambitions. I don’t think he earned that. Obama, on the other hand, came from a dirt poor family and accomplished all he’s achieved on his own… he may have gotten some “affirmative action” breaks but he definitely earned them due to intelligence and hard work.
Didn’t John McCain tell different stories as to which NFL team line-up he used as names of for the Vietcong, depending on which state or city he was in?
Obama doesn’t own enough stuff to be smug. Now McCain on the other hand…
Smug does not require the knowledge of what smug should be. And you can certainly be smug about your position in life, what you ate for dinner, just about anything you can think of, what color the gum stuck to your shoe is. In a surprisingly liberal statement, smug is relative.
Like any of you wouldn’t be just a little smug having achieved what he has. I’d be riding a giraffe down main street waving a bag of gophers in the air yelling “LOOK AT ME I’M SMUG!”.
But what has any politician actually achieved?
Smug is just another word for uppity. It’s at best subconscious racism. Almost all politicians are smug… John McCain’s smug as hell, but no one seems to be bashing him over the head with it.
Name a presidential candidate from the last 40 years who wasn’t smug.
Years tortured in the Hanoi Hilton gives McCain the right to be smug if he so chooses, whereas half-white Obama’s affirmative action ride to Columbia University gives BHO none.
Actually, it’s Obama’s total lack of any executive experience that trouble me (as well as his socialist ideas). If he didn’t have his polished persona, and his dark skin, BHO wouldn’t be the DNC’s choice. To bad Colin Powell never ran for president.
BTW, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter were never known for being smug.
His Smug cloud is going to combine with the smug of San Francisco to create a smug storm the likes of which we have never seen.
Everyone run for the hills now!
It’s colliding with the cloud of smug from George Clooney’s acceptance speech! RUN!!
Wow! I’ve always wanted to see a giraffe riding gopher waver.
@gor
His years in the Hanoi Hilton give him the right to be honored, not smug. His smugness comes from having dumped his first wife (who had cancer at the time) to marry a disgustingly rich heiress who could finance all his overarching ambitions. I don’t think he earned that. Obama, on the other hand, came from a dirt poor family and accomplished all he’s achieved on his own… he may have gotten some “affirmative action” breaks but he definitely earned them due to intelligence and hard work.
Didn’t John McCain tell different stories as to which NFL team line-up he used as names of for the Vietcong, depending on which state or city he was in?