Stephanie
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I wish we could just wake up from this nightmare called, Obama
sums him well in this article
SNIP:
It is at times like these, when he is pushed kicking and screaming into the crucible, that Obamas callowness shows. For his supporters, that jejune, jocular air has been a plus for almost six years. For the rest of us, it has served as a liability and an irritation. Yesterday, it became a wholesale embarrassment.
On the perpetual-campaign trail, the pattern is familiar.
Trotting up to the podium, the president fist-bumps the audiences stragglers and smiles a toothy and humble grin at those who catch his eye. While speaking, he responds to obsequy with obsequy I love you too! he will tell admirers whose voices rise above the crowds and greets the boos that his speechwriters have sought with faux-surprised entreaties to vote.
Thematically, his is a simple morality play, of one act and with one star. He is the prophet, illustrative of all that is good and great in the world; his critics antediluvian monsters. Regardless of the topic, the president sells himself as a common-sense-loving moderate patriot who manages at every juncture to insert himself in between the two extremes that are tearing the country apart, and who is adamantly opposed by a wicked, venal enemy that flatly refuses to relinquish its political prerogatives or constitutional claims.
In the early years, he stuck mostly to platitudes to telling his side of the story. Now, he casts his own tale as one of opposition the new kid in town who is hoping to shake things up in the back rooms of the saloon.
Obama is often caught on the back foot more often than not being informed of the big political stories by the media and not by his staff. Still, given how quickly the rest of the world cottoned on to what had happened in Ukraine, it is difficult to believe that, when he stepped onto the stage in Delaware yesterday, he was incapable of changing his plans.
He did not. Instead, the president spent a grand total of 38 seconds on the downing of the plane, describing what he knew to have been an atrocity as a tragedy that might have happened, and then going back to slamming Republicans for refusing to agree with him on infrastructure spending, to joking with his adoring fans, and to suggesting that America needed to stop indulging in what the more traditional among us like to refer to as politics. It would, as David Freddoso observed, have been as if George W. Bush had continued to read Why Daddy Is a Republican after he had learned of the attacks on the Twin Towers.
all of it here:
Our Callow Commander-in-Chief | National Review Online
sums him well in this article
SNIP:
It is at times like these, when he is pushed kicking and screaming into the crucible, that Obamas callowness shows. For his supporters, that jejune, jocular air has been a plus for almost six years. For the rest of us, it has served as a liability and an irritation. Yesterday, it became a wholesale embarrassment.
On the perpetual-campaign trail, the pattern is familiar.
Trotting up to the podium, the president fist-bumps the audiences stragglers and smiles a toothy and humble grin at those who catch his eye. While speaking, he responds to obsequy with obsequy I love you too! he will tell admirers whose voices rise above the crowds and greets the boos that his speechwriters have sought with faux-surprised entreaties to vote.
Thematically, his is a simple morality play, of one act and with one star. He is the prophet, illustrative of all that is good and great in the world; his critics antediluvian monsters. Regardless of the topic, the president sells himself as a common-sense-loving moderate patriot who manages at every juncture to insert himself in between the two extremes that are tearing the country apart, and who is adamantly opposed by a wicked, venal enemy that flatly refuses to relinquish its political prerogatives or constitutional claims.
In the early years, he stuck mostly to platitudes to telling his side of the story. Now, he casts his own tale as one of opposition the new kid in town who is hoping to shake things up in the back rooms of the saloon.
Obama is often caught on the back foot more often than not being informed of the big political stories by the media and not by his staff. Still, given how quickly the rest of the world cottoned on to what had happened in Ukraine, it is difficult to believe that, when he stepped onto the stage in Delaware yesterday, he was incapable of changing his plans.
He did not. Instead, the president spent a grand total of 38 seconds on the downing of the plane, describing what he knew to have been an atrocity as a tragedy that might have happened, and then going back to slamming Republicans for refusing to agree with him on infrastructure spending, to joking with his adoring fans, and to suggesting that America needed to stop indulging in what the more traditional among us like to refer to as politics. It would, as David Freddoso observed, have been as if George W. Bush had continued to read Why Daddy Is a Republican after he had learned of the attacks on the Twin Towers.
all of it here:
Our Callow Commander-in-Chief | National Review Online
