I Keep Trash Bags On Me...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Headline of the day--"Obama goes to GOP Lion's Den--And Mauls The Lions." Basically. That was an athletic display--like watching Hopkins dominate Trinidad back in the day. Or Jordan drop 63 on the Celtics. (Let's not extend that metaphor too far, though. We know how that ends.) He's an immense, immense fucking talent. Now he needs to use that talent to deliver what he promised.

What follows after the jump will go over some people's heads, but it's all I could think about while listening---"I put the boy in a box, like David Blaine\And let the audience watch. It ain't a thing..." Heh, this sincere. This some sincere shit right here...
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