Don't think this is limited to BoA, either.
My brother died last May. Officially, it was an accident, but it looked to me like suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, especially when we began going through his papers and found he'd been out of work and stuck with a toxic mortgage.
When I called his mortgage holder--Countrywide, I believe--out of courtesy to report his death and explain my parents and I were trying to make sense of his records, the first question was "...and which of you will be taking care of his financial obligations?" Not financial affairs, financial obligations. The possibility that none of us would cover his debts was not even addressed.
Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to say we were considering our options. At the time, negative equity seemed likely, but wasn't certain. When I asked for the information necessary to decide whether to go to probate over the house, the bank flatly refused to release any records on the mortgage or the property valuation until AFTER someone had agreed to claim ownership, including any attached debts, hoping the catch-22 would force our hand. We had to resort to hiring an independent evaluator.
They suckered Dan into a bad loan, tried to sucker his grieving relatives into accepting responsibility for it, then resorted to financial blackmail when that failed. Hell is too good for some of these creeps.
> McCain selected someone for his vice president
If my end of the rumor mill is reliable, McCain *wanted* to select Lieberman or Ridge. But, maverick that he is, he let party insiders tell him he couldn't.
Descriptions of Helms as a "consummate gentleman" put me in mind of Dave Barry's observation that "a person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
One might think your paraphrase is satire, until realizing it's not so very far from "You have free speech so I can be heard" in Rudy's infamous freedom-is-about-authority speech. Or from Bush the lesser's formulaic proclamations that he understands people are angry, desperate, grieving, frustrated, skeptical, being driven into poverty, or otherwise upset at the screwing he's giving them.
We've already got people expressing the sentiment quite literally.
The self-help Tarot for our Prez, who has neither accomplished
anything for himself, nor shown much talent for introspection, and
would prefer literature-lite. I clipped some subtitles for length.
This covers him, defining the problem space: The Logic of Failure
This crosses him: You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way
This crowns him, representing the best possible outcome: Enforcing International Law
This is beneath him, the foundation...which the querent has made his own: Laws of the Jungle
This is behind him: More Scams from the Great Beyond!: How to Make
Even More Money Off the Creationism, Evolution, Environmentalism,
Fringe Politics, Weird Science, the Occult, and Other Strange Beliefs
This is before him: What Color is Your Parachute?
The significator: The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children
His house: Self Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
His hopes and fears: Burying the Secret
Culmination: The Last Self-help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your
Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, And Throttle Your Inner Child
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