Quick links
Bookworm on Jul 22 2009 at 11:34 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got to work, but I still read a few things this morning, during my regular rounds of morning blog favorites, that I think you’ll find interesting too:
Power Line on Obama’s bizarre approach to health care reform: “One would expect a leader, paricularly one who is considered highly cerebral by many, to carefully craft a health care reform plan after a period of intense study. One would expect further that the leader would fight for his plan, compromising only around the edges and under extreme duress. One would not expect a leader to defer to others in his party simply to get a plan, any plan, passed by a certain date.” (Rick Moran makes a similar point.)
Perhaps, though, there’s a reason for Obama’s rush — and it’s not about you, me or other ordinary Americans: “”Let’s just lay everything on the table,” [Rep. Charles] Grassley said. “A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn’t going to pass if there weren’t some changes made … and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’ ”
Read this and, aside from hearing effusive praise for Valerie Jarrett, the President’s consigliere, you also learn so much about Obama. Just on the first page, you learn that he’s whiny, bad-tempered, lazy, ill-informed, stubborn, a loose cannon, and, when it comes to strong women, submissive. (Oh, gee, just the qualities I want in my president.) It’s strange when a loving NY Times article sounds as mean as a less than loving National Review article. Jarrett’s power is a bit creepy, especially given that she is a true Chicago political insider (and that’s no compliment). But what makes the article really amazing is the way in which it demeans Obama as a way of highlighting Jarrett’s behind-the-scenes control. As for Jarrett, she bears further examination, given her control over the President.
Sometimes it’s useful to remind ourselves what hate radio really looks like. (Hint: it’s not on the conservative end of the radio dial.) Fortunately, the man against whom so much of it is directed is big enough to take the hits and not get hurt.
And the RNC came out with a clever one. (H/T: Hot Air)
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Obama’s problem, and there’s absolutely nothing he can do about it, is that he does not know how to be a grown-up or a man. He can play at it and hope that the charade works, but he doesn’t have the background or experience to pull it off convincingly.
Compare our Lord Fauntleroy president to the general that Barbara Boxer felt compelled to demean. If ordered to, Brigadier General Michael Walsh could pretend to be a mannerless metrosexual like Obama, and perform the masquerade well until told to stop. That’s because every man has run into sissies in his life and can imitate them.
But how does a nancy boy like Obama pretend to something that is way above his pay grade and way beyond his ken, namely having a pair of cojones? I think that what he should do is something I did as a kid whenever I needed to reasssure myself that I had the right stuff: I’d take a pair of wooden clothes pins and use them to attach a pillowcase behind the neck of my shirt. Voila, a cape!
Such a cape! I was able to leap off of tall sofas and three—count ‘em, three!—steps of stairs. I’m almost certain I ran faster despite the cape’s air dragging propensities.
Surely there’s a Manhattan designer who’d be willing to design and make a beautiful cape of silk and gemstones that The One could don whenever he holds a press conference, visits a foreign leader or has to trudge up the stairs at the end of office hours to. . .Michelle.
I don’t think that it takes a brilliant psychoanalyst to root into his background, hids dysfunctional mother, is abandonment by a father he never knew but to whom he devoted two books, his narcissism and his unresolved anger at society over the color of his skin to understand that Obama is one very psychologically bent dude. It also doesn’t take much more insight than to look at the circle of his friends to know that this is not a nice person.
Now that the mask is slipping and he is being forced to do what he cannot (i.e., lead), I fear that we are going to see the emergence of a very different sort of person…a very ugly, crass personae. We already saw hints of this personae during the campaign (remember the finger to Hillary?) and the unspoken messages of support to the radically insane haters of the leftwing fringes as they went against Republican conventioneers in Minnesota and Sarah Palin’s kids. We already hear about the arrogance of Obama and his team toward other world leaders (in Europe, Russia and some parts of Asia, he is already being openly mocked).
I say that I “fear” this to be the case not because I want him to succeed in fulfilling his agenda (I obviously don’t) but because there is a very large and powerful country that needs real leadership, and its purported leaders will not only be AWOL but seriously dysfunctional and self-destructive. An angry, passive-aggressive, resentful and spiteful President is not what the country (or the world) needs right now.
I don’t think Obama–despite the common perception–is really an intellectual or an analyst. What he is, is a salesman, and a pretty good one. And a good salesman can usually make the prospective customer think he’s like *them* in some way…hence, many professors actually seem to believe Obama is someone who might have been happy to spend his life doing teaching and research. No way.
While there are many ethical & honorable salespeople, there are also many of the other kind–often marked by their desparation to close the sale so they can make the quarter’s numbers, regardless of whether the product/service actually fits what the customer needs.
David Foster #3
>I don’t think Obama–despite the common perception–is really an intellectual or an analyst. What he is, is a salesman, and a pretty good one.
We’re finding out that this is the truth. Obama is an extraordinarily smooth speaker, but only when he knows exactly what he is going to say.
Let the teleprompter go on the fritz, and it swiftly becomes horrifyingly embarrassing. Force him off script, and it gets ugly quickly.
I’m not sure that this is because he is utterly shallow, an empty suit, a mouthpiece.
Rather, I suspect he can speak very well about his core convictions, as well. It’s just that, if he did that to the American people, they would recoil in disgust. For his core convictions are fundamentally un-American, and actually express a hatred and disgust for many things that we treasure and love. He’d lose 60-70% of the country in a heartbeat, and he can’t allow that.
His “Joe The Plumber” moment remains a highly significant slip of the mask; a moment of Obama speaking His Own Truth as he sees it. Oh Oh Oh! – To Know what he really thinks and believes!
Mike, I think he will have his grand slip-of-the-mask moment fairly soon. This is not a man with great self-control, and somebody is finally going to get under his skin.
It may even be somebody totally unexpected, like a member of the MSM. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Helen Thomas were to be the one who, Toto-like, pulls open the curtain and exposes the man hiding behind it simply by going ever so slightly off script?
Charles, maybe Helen could turn the curtain into that cape, you so entertainingly described in your initial post. I am not sure how well the cape would go with his ‘mom jeans’ but he couldn’t look any worse than he sounds.
Danny … spot on describing his narcissism. I lost my gag reflex control when he was asked about the jeans he wore at the baseball game “I am sure American would like to see me in a pair of tight fitting jeans -it’s never gonna happen”.
Sadie heaving and and looking for a brown bag stares at the television in absolute disbelief. Leader of the free world actually was asked a stupid question AND ANSWERED IT!
David & Mike, I once described him in some post at sometime here as a ‘used car salesman’.
Seems so appropriate now – nes pas. He is really an Edsel looks good on the outside, but runs like a clinker.
WAIT…WAIT- it doesn’t stop,
compelledcompulsion to reflect on everything/anything the *NOTUS continued into his press conference commenting on the stupidity of the Cambridge Police Dept.http://www.debbieschlussel.com/
*NOTUS – Narcissist ….
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