LOSING COOL

Slang terms normally have limited lifespans.  Remember "groovy"?  Nobody uses that 1960s term of approbation anymore unless you’re Austin Powers. 

But there is one slang term that’s just as cool to use today – particularly by our society’s arbiters of cool, the young – as it was when I was one of those young back in the 1950s.  I used it twice in the last sentence.

"Cool" still means today what it has for decades – great, awesome, fantastic, excellent, hip, suave, with it, the bee’s knees, totally bitchin’.  (Bitchin’, by the way, coined by California surfers in the late 50s, is a contraction of the word "bewitching."  I know this as I was one of those surfers at the time.)

"Uncool" is the opposite – lame, dorky, weird, loser, pathetic, poseur, stupid, fake, retarded, jerk, schmuck, putz, horse’s ass, way un-hip.

Until very recently, the embodiment of cool, coolness clothed in human flesh – especially for the young – has been President Zero.  So much so that the latest lexicon of slang terms, published by the Linguistics Department of UCLA this month, lists "obama" as a slang term meaning "cool."  "That’s so obama" according to the dictionary means "That’s so cool."

Not any more.  That’s so yesterday.  Zero is no longer cool.  Proof is how completely off-the-charts viral the Joker poster of Zero has gone in the last few days.  And that it was done by an anonymous graffiti artist in L.A. who is undoubtedly a young kid.

Google "obama" + "joker" today (8/06) and you get over 11 million hits.  Two days ago it was 6.5 million.   Zazzle now lists 2,461 "Joker Obama Gifts" for sale, like t-shirts and mugs.  People are printing and posting them up in public places all over the country, from LA to Atlanta, from Sioux Falls to George Washington University in DC.

The character of The Joker played by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Night" Batman movie (2008) was a genius of pathological evil.  (It was an incredibly impressive performance, for which Ledger justifiably won an Academy Award.) 

To portray Zero as Heath Ledger’s Joker, and for that portrayal to go instantly and wildly viral, is a nation-wide recognition that there is something evil in him.  And something very, very uncool.

Greatly assisting this growing perception of Zero was the White House actually publishing on its official website last week (7/30) this now famous photo epitomizing the obliviousness of Zero to anyone but himself.

Very, very uncool.

Uncoolness has also suddenly spread beyond Zero to permeate both his Administration and the Democrat Party along with its moonbat supporters.

Last Friday (7/31) Zero’s Treasury Secretary, Tiny Tim Geithner, completely "lost his cool" in a foul-mouthed "expletive-laden tirade" against the Fed’s Ben Bernanke, SEC’s Mary Shapiro, and FDIC’s Sheila Bair – as reported by the New York Times.

Tiny Tim’s "repeated obscenities and his aggressive posture" were due to the regulators – who do not work for and are legally independent of him – not moving fast enough to seize more federal power.

Very, very uncool.

As regular, normal, middle-class Americans become enraged by Zero and the Pelosicrats’ never-ending seizure of more power over their lives, and turn Town Hall meetings into Town Hells of protest, rather than listening to them the Pelosicrats engage in fascist insults.

Those who protest against their agenda are "racists," "extremist mobs," "Brooks Brothers elitists," or – their ultimate over-the-top insult, Nazis.  Yesterday (8/05), Pelosi herself on national television accused those protesting against her and her ilk of "carrying swastikas."

What a winning strategy – insult and demonize voters and constituents who disagree with you.  Very, very uncool.

We don’t have to wait until November 2010 to see how this starts playing out.  This November – 11/03/09 – there are elections for two major-state governors.  In both New Jersey and Virginia, the Republican is way out in front. 

If the Dems are panicking now over town halls and Joker posters, wait ‘till you see them completely lose it, as in unglued, after this November 3^rd. 

Many of them, of course, will go right around the bend this very month, as they won’t be able to cope with the level of protest against them by voters in their own district during the August Recess.

If you are planning to participate in one of these protests, here’s a suggestion.

Physicians for Reform tells the story of Oregon resident Barbara Wagner.  Rather than treat the reappearance of her lung cancer, she was deemed a "negative economic unit" who qualified only for hospice care or physician-assisted suicide.

So, if you’d like a suggestion for an attention-getting sign for a town hall/tea party protest, how about one with a picture of your Congressista or Pelosi or Zero with the caption under it:  NEGATIVE ECONOMIC UNIT.

If asked about the meaning, especially by some media goon covering the protest, you can answer:  "(politician’s name) does not contribute anything positive to our economy, but is instead a drain on our economic resources.  As such, he/she is a negative economic unit, and as they would be physically under ObamaCare, deserve to be politically euthanized."

Have fun at the protests this summer.  Keep your cool.  Revel in the fact that Zero and the Pelosicrats are losing theirs – irretrievably.  The Second American Revolution is underway.