Comments on: Favorites of the Favorite, or the Great Sayings of Chairman Fattah https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/05/14/favorites-of-the-favorite-or-the-great-sayings-of-chairman-fattah/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 18 May 2007 19:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Western Dave https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/05/14/favorites-of-the-favorite-or-the-great-sayings-of-chairman-fattah/comment-page-1/#comment-3592 Fri, 18 May 2007 19:44:48 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=374#comment-3592 Nutter won, and I voted for him. But the thing is, late in the day I discovered Dwight Evans, which is pretty sad because I only live a few blocks from his district in West Oak Lane where he accomplishes miracles. Evans probably would have been the best choice but most of us didn’t even know about him. And by then it was onto strategic voting. Fattah kind of embarrassed himself in the primary and his protege Cindy Bass, failed to knock of “worst councilperson” Donna Reed Miller despite the endorsements of everybody. I expect him to face a challenge in the next primary. He really looked bad in the mayor race.

]]> By: David Chudzicki https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/05/14/favorites-of-the-favorite-or-the-great-sayings-of-chairman-fattah/comment-page-1/#comment-3562 Mon, 14 May 2007 23:41:28 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=374#comment-3562 Fattah’s “Book or author other people praise but I never liked: Rick Santorum” cracked me up. Also how there aren’t any TV shows Nutter is not ashamed to admit he watches.

And Nutter’s Mandela to Fattah’s Tiger Woods.

]]> By: jfruh https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/05/14/favorites-of-the-favorite-or-the-great-sayings-of-chairman-fattah/comment-page-1/#comment-3561 Mon, 14 May 2007 21:17:44 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=374#comment-3561 Having been the Comics Curmudgeon for 3+ years, I have to say that you should never be surprised by the comics people like. I was recently talking to my uncle’s fiancee, a 40- or 50-something, multiple-degree-holding African American woman, and found out that she absolutely adores Dennis the Menace. “I just love it when he makes Mr. Wilson so mad!” is a direct quote.

Honestly, I have to imagine that he really does like the Lockhorns, because I have a hard time imagining that being a politically resonant choice with, well, anybody. Maybe, like me, Nutter admires the strip’s total commitment to endless intramarital loathing, unleavened by any hint of sentimentality or human kindness. Or maybe he really hates his wife.

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