Obama is effortlessly nasty
Bookworm on Nov 06 2011 at 9:14 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Obama was going for the type of joke you throw at the frat brother whose been your friend for decades, and with whom you’ve spent many pleasantly inebriated evenings. It is not the type of joke you throw at the French President in a formal setting. In this latter context, without a long friendship and a few beers, it is as mean and condescending as anything else this mean and condescending man has said over the years:
Or see here.
Everybody keeps telling me the man is charming. I just don’t see it. I see a self-involved, ponderous boor.
Hat tip: Keith Koffler
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Jack Kennedy could have pulled this joke off. This assbite is no Jack Kennedy.
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That was not funny.
Thinking of the idea of a Romney Presidency makes the muscles in my gut want to do uncomfortable things. But as God as my Witness–by the way, I’m agnostic–
Life would be easier if I believed, wouldn’t it?
But no one said life was easy.
Politicians know how to take the measure of another person.
Sarkozy knows Obama by now very well and has taken his measure.
He knows Obama regards himself as God’s gift to us all, blessed with superior intellect and looks and, well, everything. (“I am a better speechwriter than my speechwriters, a better strategist than my strategiests, a better…” on and on and on.) I’ve seen the video of Obama posing in the airplain aisle while the CNN female reporters ooohed and aaahed and made unprofessional remarks (“Get out of the way, I can’t SEE, I can’t SEE!” and sighing to each other while he drank up the attention.)
Obama never, ever, ever laughs at himself. Never pokes fun at himself. Actually I did see him try once, and it was extraordinarily painful. On someone’s talk show, he mentioned bowling and how he’d thrown a gutter ball. He said it felt like he was in the Special Olympics. (I think that’s how he put it. It was horrifyingly unfunny.)
So when Obama makes a joke like this of Sarkozy, and Sarkozy knows Obama and his extraordinarily high opinion of himself (and his own looks), it’s going to come across as a a nasty smirky insult delivered by a smarmy, shallow asshole.
I wonder why Marcia felt that she needed to drop in a gratuitous slap at Romney?
No Marcia, I don’t think life would be easier if you believed. Believing carries responsibilities that you can avoid with your lack of belief. BTW, I have always wondered a bit about the term Agnostic. It seems to me to be an either/or situation. You believe, or you do not–if you do not the term Atheist seems to apply.
Sorry, Book. I am in danger of hijacking your thought. I agree that Obama clearly has a tin ear. I guess narcissism has that effect. But, I actually did not think this instance was so bad at first. Not in the same league as the one Mike D cites. I think the reaction is a measure of how Obama is now viewed on the world stage, as well as a statement about the fragile sensibilities of the French.
OldFlyer: I have to agree with Marica that it would be “easier” in one way to be a believer. Although non-believers constantly like to smear believers as “irrational,” I think the opposite is true. If you truly believe in a Higher Power, you do believe in a rational universe. That you may not always understand what is going on doesn’t mean the world is meaningless chaos; it means that you are not privy to the understanding and motives of that Higher Being. Being out of the loop — i.e., not understanding God’s motives or purpose — is different from the uneasy feeling that life has no purpose, no meaning, no goal, no beginning and no end.
In other words, if you have a baseline faith, it might mean that you’re not going through life staring into the endless black space of meaningless existentialism. And emotionally and psychologically, that has to be infinitely less stressful.
Certainly studies bear this out: people who truly believe in God are happier, regardless of their actual, on-the-ground circumstances.
When he loses (I believe! I believe!) I’m going to read all the foreign papers I can just to see the editorial gloating.
What, did he think the love of French intellectuals would survive such infantile insults? The French *invented* chauvinism . . .
Well spoken Book. There is comfort in having a belief system. I should think that your description of the lack thereof is accurate. On the other hand, if you do not believe then you can put yourself at the center of the universe, and the only obligations are those that are self-imposed. Well, there are those imposed by the State, but they are unavoidable for anyone.
If you do not believe, you are not at risk of having to defend your belief, much less face martydom. Not that folks in America are put in either situation these days. But, the Coptic Christians of today, and Jews throughout history know a thing or two about the cost of believing.
See, I did hi-jack your thread. Let’s get back to sneering at Obama. That is pure fun.
Regardless of one’s station in life, class, savoir-faire, and joie de vivre show and this biological specimen clearly has none.
“‘NUF SAID”.
France this year, the UK last year and in between Bibi Netanyahu, Dalai Llama…. It would just be easier to make a list of whom he has not insulted.
That (presentation) was a JOKE! Clearly his handlers forgot to tell him to read it as a punchline not a eulogy. That was such a bomb that they called in the domestic terrorism squad which said off camera “Go away you Engilsh enuretic bed wetting types or I will taunt you some more!!”
JFK – the real one – was no JFK, either – at least not the Disney version we’ve all been being force-fed for 48 years. (48 years – oh, merciful gods, in two years it’ll be the 50th anniversary, and if we’re still here after December 2012, we’re going to wish we weren’t!)
Anyway, the OWS concerns me far less than the current Occupy the White House crowd does. We can end this little parvenu bastard’s occupation of our house twelve months from tomorrow. Doing so is worthy of, and should be consuming all our efforts. By comparison halfwits int he streets are a matter of close to zero interest.
jj, I agree that Priapist-in-Chief JFK was pretty much a media creation, but he at least had a set. The eunuch we have in the White House now is an embarrassment to men everywhere.
Do you guys remember all those times Democrats told us that Bush was making us look bad to the world?