Patum Peperium: Not bad for a shiksa.

Madame's Nightshirt

Mrs. Peperium

First,

in honor of April's Fool day,

some of the fools who gave us

this joke of a White House:

From October 30, 2008:

CHARLIE ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

TOM BROKAW: No, I don't, either.

CHARLIE ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

TOM BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

CHARLIE ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

TOM BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.

CHARLIE ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

TOM BROKAW: Two of them. I don't know what books he's read.

CHARLIE ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

TOM BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

From November 18, 2008:

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Yeah. Even aside from the fact of electing the first African American President and whatever one’s partisan views this is a guy whose IQ is off the charts — I mean you cannot say that he is anything but a very serious and capable leader and — you know — You and I have talked about this for years….

DON IMUS: Well. What is his IQ?

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Our system doesn’t allow those people to become President, those people meaning people that smart and that capable….

DON IMUS: What is his IQ?

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Pardon?

DON IMUS: What is his IQ?

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Uh…..I would say it’s probably – he’s probably the smartest guy ever to become President.

From April 2009:

DAVID BROOKS: He is, like all supreme politicians, you come out of the guy thinking -- away from the guy thinking, "Oh, Mr. President, I love you." I mean, he... (laughing)

CHARLIE ROSE: And he knew exactly what would push your buttons.

DAVID BROOKS: I actually once went in there to -- David Axelrod walks into a meeting with me carrying "The Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke. They are not without manipulation.

CHARLIE ROSE: Exactly.

CHARLIE ROSE: "Do you think you're going to argue that being a community organizer was very good training for becoming president?"

DAVID BROOKS: The biggest shock to me, I thought, the guy's 47, the guy's barely been in Washington. Can he run an effective administration? Yes.

CHARLIE ROSE: And an effective campaign, too.

BROOKS: He has run a tremendously effective, efficient managerial administration. That is the biggest surprise and I think the biggest story of the first hundred days. Because if he didn't do that, if he didn't have the essential level of competence, nothing else would matter, people would not trust him. But he is a competent manager.

ROSE: This White House is very much an intellectual hothouse.

BROOKS: Intellectual power.

ROSE: The self-confidence and the intelligence.

BROOKS: There are certain intellects which are like fluorescent, and the president is one of them.

ROSE: He seems to be like Michael Jordan with 30 seconds to go. He wants the ball. He seems to be like Joe Montana with two minutes to go.

BROOKS: He e-mails him, "You're like Michael Jordan," and Obama e-mails him back, "Just give me the ball."

ROSE: I didn't even know that.

BROOKS: Yeah, there you go.

BROOKS: Obama didn't need the crowd. The crowd needed him.

ROSE: Is it John F. Kennedyesque? McLuhan said there are cool characters and hot characters. Bobby Kennedy was hot. Jack Kennedy was cool.

BROOKS: Well, I mean it's certainly true that Obama's cool.

ROSE: Cool.

President Cool's Presidential First Pitches

(He was a no-show yesterday. All our other Presidents since Taft have shown up even when we were at War. Not that Obama has THAT excuse. Oh, one has been a no-show -Jimmy Carter)

As the government shutown nears and our president grows less and less serious with each exploding Middle Eastern country, I thought it would be fun to show you how my bagel making turned out. You may recall in late January, in a essay called Finagle I wrote about my craving for a real NYC bagel while in St. Louis. This craving had grown so strong I was going to undertake the baking of them. Well I did. Dear readers, I didn't stop at bagels. I kept on going. Just watch.

Mazel Tov!

(What you've seen : sesame, poppy, everything bagels, challah, turkey noodle soup, bialys, Russian pumpernickel, Russian sweet and sour cabbage soup, raspberry and apricot ruglach.)

Comments

Mrs. P,

I guess a good bagel is a good bagel anywhere. Even without NYC water used. One of the best bagels I ever had was a cheddar cheesy jalapeno bagel with jalapeno cream cheese in the Laguna Beach area, California!

Will you try making Manhattan pretzels or Brooklyn pizza next?

Posted by: Mario Mandingo | April 01, 2011 at 09:26 PM