IndigoMisfit (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I couldn't follow anything he said. What on earth was his point?!?

opinion56 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

you people are dumb. this was satire and sarcasm. he was doing third person on obamas view. this is totally out of context i listened to this show so i know. remember obama said "we cant eat as much as we want" he was just doing some sarcastic humor

sdpgposd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hilarious trolling video

Blackmilk81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Surely I'm misunderstanding something here....did he REALLY mean to suggest burning calories and fossil fuel consumption are the same thing?

hjsmith81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You agree w/ bashing phelps? How do you figure?

Suiram82 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Talk about throwing about throwing a rock in a glass house...

Turtleproof (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Why does anyone listen to his stream-of-consciousness idiocy? It's an invalid comparison- Phelps does not wildly consume without a diet plan or exercise plan, and it does not compare to fuel energy policy.

metalxmustang (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i think he is bashing phelps too, which I absolutely agree with

neestle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And I'm not conservative. This indeed does make sense, in its own insular way. See, I can recognize analogies, similes, even the occasional generalization. It's called abstract reasoning. I have it, and I don't ignore it just because it's the "enemy." He might be wrong about his conclusions, but that doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it makes sense, a principle many people miss.And fuck you for the kool-aid comment.

neestle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

His point (in the full audio) is clearly that a great deal of energy consumption is required to be great, a metaphor he uses to describe not other athletes, but nation states. And since energy is a pressing political concern, and the two parties actually have very different ideas about it (unlike many other things), it seems like an effective, if slightly shoehorned, comparison to make during the final stretch of the presidential campaign. Make sense yet?